Lowe's

Very flexible schedule. Two days in the office, and sometimes a manager can decide to work from home some weeks.

Good company overall with many events in the tech hub.

A lot to do with the code base to make it readable for incoming developers and manageable for the existing developers.

I don't see the proper agile processes and ceremonies.

No formal code reviews or standards, steering the code base to a nightmare to maintain (bad code on top of the bad code).

The tech managers are against quality assurance engineers and scrum associates (lucky to have a scrum master, no analysts to keep up with the documentation), all these things are on the devs, which is making things even slower.

A lot of things in the code are so coupled together and duplicated in multiple repos, which makes it so hard to maintain and not break something else while fixing other things.

Microservices are more of the monolithic on the CICD pipelines.

These may not be so bad things, but they REALLY NEED A GOOD SOFTWARE PRINCIPAL ARCHITECT who can get everyone on the same board and enforce the software standards.

The flexible schedule comes with a cost of being on-call once in a while and some service monitoring shifts during peak seasons and holidays.

REALLY NEED A GOOD SOFTWARE PRINCIPAL ARCHITECT who can get everyone on the same board and enforce the software standards.