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horrible engineer org

Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Braze for 1 year
June 23, 2019
New York, New York
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Unlimited vacation time

Small teams, total ~40 devs

Cons

Unrealistic OKRs, only ~50 achievable goals Unhealthy eng. org that it doesn't focus on team work but individual work Super difficult local dev with Ruby & Sidekiq, hard for testing correctness Team decision making not transparent to individuals, team lead decides Not willing to take risks by certain team leads and blame individuals for small mistakes

Advice to Management

Have realistic OKRs

Treat engineers nicer with more transparent team decision making

Make local dev environment better to deliver tasks easier and safer

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