Company in Decline
Company in Decline
Pay is strong in areas of growth. Work-life balance is good. Employees are generally intelligent. They let you have a Mac now.
The company seems incapable of delivering a product modern customers want. The focus is on shifting revenue from old products to new products to keep the ship from sinking, not generating new revenue.
Management seems to have no idea how to sell the product I build. There is no way to contribute in a meaningful way here; I am merely a cog in a giant machine.
Remote positions are going away. Employees are being let go by the tens of thousands.
If I have to open Lotus Notes one more time, I might have to seek out mental health care. The only thing standing in my way is the health insurance co-pay, which is ridiculously high, by the way.
Corporate offices are something out of "Office Space"—but somehow it's not funny now that I'm employed here. I thought the grass was greener, and I was wrong.
Make a product someone actually wants to buy, not a product from which devs are trying to migrate.
Re-evaluate everyone that's worked at the company for more than 20 years; they are what's wrong with enterprise IT.
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I applied through my university's program. After about a week, they contacted me via email. We scheduled a phone screen to see if we would be a good fit for each other. The phone interview was with two members of the team and consisted of details a
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Austin, Texas, United StatesMarch 1, 2011I went through five interviews, one of them in person. I was surprised that I was not asked to solve programming challenges throughout the interview process. For the most part, I was just asked about my experience and projects I worked on.
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Austin, Texas, United StatesSeptember 1, 2014I had an informal chat with the manager, followed by a quick and easy technical interview. They asked me some simple Java questions, and not knowing an answer did not impact my overall status. A very new employee conducted the interview.
