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Not enough focus on making developers productive

Database Developer II
Current Employee
Has worked at Expedia Group for less than 1 year
April 22, 2015
Bellevue, Washington
3.0
RecommendsNegative OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

It still has the feel of a growing company. Every day, I feel that I'm contributing towards something big. My team is collaborative and friendly. It'd be a slam dunk if it was only about the people.

Cons

Space constraints have us packed in like sardines.

Open floor plans mean that a single noisy person can be heard from 50 feet away.

AntiVirus is set to "paranoid," causing computers to hang even when scanning the same file every day.

Too many layers of bureaucracy to release code to production.

Advice to Management

We should split our infrastructure to allow easier deployment of non-critical features.

Developers need more administrative control over their computers.

I recently overheard a comment that MacBooks were a better way to go because they weren't as locked down as Windows. What good are restrictions that people actively work on bypassing?

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