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Great product, terrible engineering culture

Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Miro for 1 year
May 21, 2022
Berlin, Germany
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

Great product and an average market salary.

Cons

Culture and management:

Engineering culture and leadership is just terrible. It's a mix of dictatorship and micromanagement.

They claim that they want to hire talented engineers, but what they actually need is coding monkeys that do what they have been told and keep their professional opinions to themselves.

All technical decisions are made by people that don't even write code, and you are just forced to implement what they want, even though sometimes it doesn't make any sense. A lot of paperwork and bureaucracy, plus micromanagement, instead of actually delivering features.

They talk a lot about "Miro culture," being a team to win the world, but management doesn't value or ignore honest feedback and does nothing to actually improve, even a little bit, the existing 10-year-old terrible development process and engineering culture. Most of the engineering management/leadership lack soft skills/any sort of charisma.

Codebase:

Codebase is just a huge piece of legacy monolith that was under development for 10+ years without any code/architecture quality control/vision and is just a huge mess. No ownership for a lot of components, and a lot of critical parts are not covered by tests properly because no one cared (some still don't) about engineering practices. Most critical parts of the system are built with some proprietary framework that no one understands properly and is widely misused, which leads to even more mess.

Just avoid as much as you can. Don't waste your time.

Advice to Management

Listen for feedback from your engineers and reevaluate who you put in charge of tech leadership/management positions.

Additional Ratings

Work/Life Balance
4.0
Culture and Values
1.0
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
2.0
Career Opportunities
1.0
Compensation and Benefits
3.0
Senior Management
1.0

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