Was a good place to work
Was a good place to work
Decent pay. Good benefits. Nice to have a large tech company in AZ. Good place to build experience.
Company culture went downhill because of the buyout/IPO.
Most long-term managers were forced out. There was massive cronyism with new management.
In the old days, the company was very good about promoting from within. Not anymore. Tons of new hires at the VP+ level so they and their bros can cash out on the IPO.
Tech departments are very bureaucratic. If you figure out a better way to do something, good for you, no one is listening. There is massive technical debt that no one upstairs cares about paying. Well, if they do care, no one will give you the resources to do anything about it.
I almost forgot. The performance review process is arbitrary, and upper management manipulates it to avoid giving raises. Reviews can get downgraded if your team/department has "too many" good reviews.
Preemptive rebuttal: I know this is true about reviews; I witnessed it firsthand.
None. It's clear they are mostly concerned about pleasing the investors and making money from the IPO.
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May 1, 2011This was during the spring, and I'm in the MT zone, thus it was an hour earlier in AZ. The recruiter didn't seem to care and called me after 7 PM repeatedly. She definitely let on that she had technical experience. It took me a while to realize she w
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