Qualtrics

Free food, good pay, nice office, and some good benefits that you'll also meet great people through.

• Teams feel like they are working against each other.
• Since the Silverlake takeover, the stance on promotions has been company need and not employee readiness, which doesn't feel great.
• Engineers are overworked; burnout is common, and people just disappear for days to have mental breakdowns.
• Engineering teams are shrinking, and my team is now half of what it started with.
• The company feels like it is in maintenance mode since the layoffs, but it is still asking for tons of features, resulting in too little butter on too much toast.

Understand that the company and its employees are strained. Asking for more features from a team half the original size is maybe asking too much.

Not promoting people will cause them to feel stuck, and good people will leave.