Politics and untrustworthy leadership, but lots to love
Politics and untrustworthy leadership, but lots to love
- Great work environment
- Great people working here
- Success-driven environment
- Lots of recognition for doing good work (including monetary bonuses)
- Lots of opportunity to do good, creative work
- Great benefits and pay
- Straight up BS and lies from executives.
- Decisions often made for political gain for executives, despite negative business value.
- Executives who consider themselves "experts" constantly interfere with getting work done.
- Poorly planned distribution of work leads to some teams doing much more work than others.
- Expectation of team members to stay late and sacrifice personal lives to meet trivial executive decisions.
- MOST of the team are contractors, which is often a huge bummer.
- Ramping up new contractors every year is incredibly frustrating.
- Not having people year over year who understand our code is frustrating and harmful.
- Company does nothing to respond to/address concerns about the large number of contractors we employ.
- Constantly have to feel bad about perks and benefits that a small minority of us get for being full-time, because most of the team here are contractors. For example, we had a Star Wars movie day with the launch of the new movie, but contractors weren't invited and the company didn't address this or apologize for it. The contractors were even forced to go to the meeting where the announcement for the movie day was made, and were led to believe they were invited, but ultimately weren't. It was a nice gesture, sort of, but ultimately came off cruel and made most of us feel guilty for going.
- Much of the facilities are outdated and not improving. For example, we have an "inspiration room" which is really cool at first glance, but if you spend any time in there you will quickly see the pool table is in crap condition, the ping pong paddles are broken, the TV doesn't work, the foosball table is totally busted, and there is an old arcade machine circa 2000 on which the P2 controls don't work.
- Despite record success year over year, the company has become more strict on the fun/events/expenses we are allowed to make. We're no longer allowed to expense work parties or dinners when we have a celebration without heavy scrutiny... unless you are a VP or higher; apparently, they are okay with expensing $200 bottles of champagne and $1000 dinner parties for themselves.
- Reduce the amount of contractors and increase the amount of full-time people.
- Hire more full-time people.
- At least address the problem we have with contractors and stop ignoring it; it makes you look untrustworthy.
- Upgrade the facility if you want to keep touting that this is such a great place to work.
- Stay out of the way of your scrum teams.
- Hire more full-time people.
- Don't presume to understand design more than the expert designers you have hired to do the creative work.
- Seriously, just keep your design opinions to yourselves, or at least give your input at the appropriate times, rather than crapping all over our work in the final review.
- Hire more full-time people.
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