Ripple

My peers were great people and I got along with them well. During the time I worked there, the pay was good and the office facilities were nice.

When I worked there, the organization structure led to bureaucratic inertia because an engineering team would have a cascading chain of middle management until reaching the exec level (with each of the middle managers managing a few people until the last layer).

Product & sales had a louder voice in the company than engineering, which created opportunities for engineers to feel unappreciated and have to constantly stomach tech debt to meet swift deadlines.

There was also a lot of churn – it was not unnatural for an engineering team to have its manager changed within a year.

Let's hope things changed since I left.