GoDaddy

Modern technology stack at GoDaddy!

There are too many hires from Microsoft at Kirkland who bring in a bad culture of stack ranking and passing judgment on people. Promotions are hard to come by for engineers who do all the hard work and ship products.

Honestly, we don't need managers who are not technical contributors. They contribute nothing but bringing down employee morale.

It seems the company is run by people who can "talk" rather than those who can contribute in some departments in Kirkland.

Test org managers are pathetic ("SDETS" or SDET "people managers"). They are now having inflated titles like "Senior Directors" or "Directors" with ZERO technical skills and ZERO GitHub contributions.

These are harmful to the company's growth more than Blake realizes.

I used to be proud of GoDaddy's values and engineering culture and am feeling increasingly disheartened by some of the new management from Sunnyvale and ex-Microsoft hires.

GoDaddy's culture and employees are amazing and don't need such ex-Microsoft hires to steer the company. We need people with good values and good technical skills for growth.

Also, please fix the promotion system where managers talk senselessly on what employees need to bring to get the next level promotion. Cross-team collaboration, visibility, joining forces are all buzzwords that soon tend to lose value if you're not appreciated.

I used to value great work-life balance, and some test managers, especially here, and upper management are pulling GoDaddy 10 years back.

Upper management should shut up and let engineers do their work.