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Very hard to get promoted. Every manager in my department is an outside hire, for example, as well as every tech lead. I've almost never seen people get promoted.

Lots of discrimination of various kinds. DEI metrics rule. Many tech departments are ruled by ethnic nepotism. I worked for over [years] with a department head who was Indian and openly would only hire Indians, would only interview Indians, etc.

Good performance is simply not rewarded.

Tech stack is wildly out of date.

Org structure is very behind the times. They have a whole huge org of just scrum masters that do no coding; they just run stand-ups and manage Jira.

Compensation is uncompetitive.

In-office requirement is weird.

They do drug testing if you're curious.

Not succeeding at staying relevant.