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Decent Pay/Old Tech/Bad Management

SRE/DevOps Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at DRW for 4 years
April 7, 2025
Chicago, Illinois
2.0
Doesn't RecommendPositive OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros
  • Cash bonuses, bigger if you're on teams that make money for the company.
  • Nice location downtown.
  • Catered food in the office.
  • Diverse coworkers.
Cons
  • Soulless mission that prioritizes money over everything else.
  • Large on-premise infrastructure because they're scared of utilizing the cloud across desks, even though all the engineers clamor for it.
  • Infrastructure is viewed as a line item that costs the business money, not a potential revenue maker.
  • Ancient tech in parts of the infrastructure that make reliability & security kind of a joke, where "best practices" and new ideas go to pasture.
  • Jockeying middle managers that don't care about you and your life outside of work.
  • Extremely limited internal mobility and career growth.
Advice to Management

Automate more, document less, learn the word empathy.

Additional Ratings

Work/Life Balance
2.0
Culture and Values
1.0
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
2.0
Career Opportunities
1.0
Compensation and Benefits
3.0
Senior Management
1.0

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