Good work-life balance and friendly, but not a sustainable place to grow your career
Good work-life balance and friendly, but not a sustainable place to grow your career
- Good work/life balance (for now, it's starting to change).
- LGBTQ+ friendly, with lots of diverse business resource groups.
- Pension plan (RBA) with a 5% contribution of salary courtesy of the company.
- Cutting more and more benefits each year.
- Cut 401k contributions and switched to an RBA pension plan that has a slower growth rate and no ways to control investments.
- Pushing high-velocity software delivery and abandoning any quality metrics.
- Micromanaging: values performance solely on GitHub commits and Jira bug resolution rate.
- Requirement from management to mark 15% of the workforce as low performance. This affects their salary conversations and blocks them from raises and bonuses. It also makes you compete against coworkers rather than work together.
- Raises usually only come from promotions. Typically little to no cost-of-living raises.
- Changes internal tools every one or two years, making it difficult to do work.
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