Starburst

• Extremely smart and talented coworkers

• Fully remote if you'd like

• Engineering management is borderline incompetent and ruining this company. We change direction completely every two seconds. Every product is half-baked and done in a rush. It's like taking cocaine. A short term high predates the crash.

• Everyone rows their own boat. No one is rowing in the same direction. It's the wild west out here. If you like total chaos with no coherent strategy and everyone working against each other, Starburst R&D is the place for you.

• AI gets shoved down your throat here in the worst way. Each team is criminally understaffed, and AI is the excuse for that understaffing. The rising incidents and worse code quality is an entirely predictable outcome that everyone who paid attention saw coming.

• No 401k, or any other good benefit for that matter

AI, the way it manifests here, gives the effect of cocaine. A short-term high with the crash on the horizon. Everyone ships hacked-together short-term garbage now. Soon, this bill will come due. The fault for this will lie with our newer engineering "leadership," but I doubt they'll truly be held accountable for it. Engineering is a sinking ship right now, avoid if you are able.