Tenable

None at the end of my time

I'll try to keep this short. The culture in the Dublin office was incredible: friendly, smart, and engaged engineers and engineering management.

However, during my time there, a new CPO, Nico Popp, joined and started to introduce a real "the grind never stops" culture that filtered down through mid-management to my team and others.

In a matter of weeks, quotes about 8 hours of sleep being too much and "sleep faster" were dropped into company calls and completely soured me on the company. This was accompanied by changes to the on-call setup for engineers that involved 24/7 pages that you were expected to answer, even if you were woken from your sleep for the 3rd time in one night.

Management ignored any requests to revert this system. I would avoid this company like the plague as long as this side of management is still there.

I had liked the CEO, but as he presumably hired and oversaw Nico's work, I have to assume he approved of these changes. No compensation level would be worth the hell of the last weeks in the company, but when I left, I got a 20% pay bump, so I can only assume they are substandard.