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Politics seeps throughout the engineering organization

Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Indeed for 2 years
October 21, 2018
1.0
Pros

Unlimited PTO Data-driven culture Ability to drive initiatives and iterations

Cons

Politics is seeping into the engineering culture. Your fate and growth depend on your manager and how much they know how to play it. If you don't have an idea how things work here (being an engineer), you will be manipulated until you know what the right expectations are.

You won't be rewarded what you deserve in a direct manner. Instead, the management will torture you to yield your fullest so that you think that you really achieved it and the bar is high, which in reality was not.

Engineering bar is getting lower.

Advice to Management

Help people understand what the right thing to do is and what the right expectations are. Don't manipulate them in the name of motivation. Think about building the long-term trust of an employee.

Don't bully employees and don't let them be bullied by anyone else. Sooner or later, they are going to get out of it some way or the other.

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