Friendly People, Terrible Work
Friendly People, Terrible Work
The people are generally pretty friendly.
The work is terrible. The culture resists anything close to innovation, and after a significant reorganization, the work/life balance that was one of the few pros to working here is gone, replaced by bad planning, terrible software design, and extra hours, including holiday weekends. Software engineering is replaced with straight-up hacking – just bang stuff out and hope for the best. At decision time, management drives the team to clone the legacy system.
This is becoming another amazon.com.
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