Exciting Tech, Toxic Culture
Exciting Tech, Toxic Culture
- Great 1st line managers.
- A few nice staff members (in rare cases).
- Cognitive Computing is somewhat exciting.
- Bottom feeder team leads
- Personally witnessed sexism, racism, and favoritism
- Old business practices
- "Agile" focus that ends up being more like a poorly-executed version of Waterfall
- Little room for advancement
- Sales teams affect your team (even if there is a lack of communication between production and sales)
- Hire new employees who bring in NEW ideas.
- Lay off all of the "good ole boy" club.
- Lay off all of the wacky "know-it-alls" who are experts at obsolete code.
- 2nd/3rd line managers are clueless to what's going on.
- Some of the 2nd lines should lighten the load for 1st line managers.
- Listen to ALL members of the team.
- Learn how to promote the people who are actually working harder than the people who are good at talking the loudest.
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The initial contact was a phone screening interview. Several days later, I was contacted for interviews with several technical personnel and given a short skills assessment test. The screening interview consisted of general questions about my curren
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The interview process involved: * HR phone call * Email communication * On-site interview First round: with 2 engineers, focusing on Java. Second round: with 2 managers, discussing work experience and communication skills. After the intervi
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Interview with managers: The technical interview did not have many difficult questions. Overall, the questions were very focused. The interview with the manager was divided into two rounds. One of them was in English to assess the level of comprehe
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Austin, Texas, United StatesDecember 1, 2009The initial contact was a phone screening interview. Several days later, I was contacted for interviews with several technical personnel and given a short skills assessment test. The screening interview consisted of general questions about my curren
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