GoDaddy

The company is fundamentally decent. There are a lot of smart people who work there, and they try their best to make things better despite stupid management decisions. It is generally a fun place to work. Even when the hours get long, you still manage to enjoy it for the most part.

Management are a bunch of yes-men who way over-promise to the execs. The result is the "trench folk" really feel the pressure and, as a result, some pretty sloppy shortcuts are taken to meet purely arbitrary dates.

There is no software development experience or expertise at the exec level, even though they all fancy themselves as some sort of Google competitor.

The software development process is:

• Marketing dreams up a random, useless feature.
• Marketing picks an arbitrary date regardless of work effort or scope.
• Developers work to the bone to make it happen.
• The date is missed due to a lack of planning.
• Customers get pissed because defects aren't fixed in lieu of the aforementioned random, useless feature.
• Lather, rinse, repeat.

Also, there is a very political inner circle. If you cross anyone (i.e., challenge the technical approach, or lack thereof) you will be dealt a heavy blow, often terminated.

Hire some real software engineers with real degrees in software engineering and real experience developing commercial software. Get some real development experience from outside in the management tier and trust those people to develop release dates based on realistic work breakdown structures.