No growth, move slow, and very bad management
No growth, move slow, and very bad management
The food and office are very nice.
A senior VP will micromanage a software engineer and get him fired, regardless of his performance and endorsements from managers or team leads.
Everything goes super slow. Develop, test, and deploy would take up to half a year, and the reason given is simply to be "safe."
Someone please take responsibility and don't be afraid of "bugs." Get someone close to product to make decisions.
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