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Amazing Exit, Toxic Culture

Senior Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Walmart for less than 1 year
February 10, 2020
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros
  • Well paid
  • The amazing feeling when you quit
Cons
  • Management refuse to listen to anyone under them, even if it's the entire development team of 40+ people.
  • Teams think it's fine to build in security flaws if it helps them test in production easier.
  • Developers are obsessed with reinventing the wheel.
  • Verbally abusive product managers.
  • 50% of the week in meetings.
  • Lack of ownership.
  • Everyone says "Agile", nobody knows what it means.
  • Everything is managed in massive Excel sheets or documents by hand.
  • Jira has been configured to be as painful and unnecessary as humanly possible.
Advice to Management
  • Stop putting people through six rounds of interviews to see "if they have the right skills" only to put them in the corner, tell them they are wrong, and every decision is above their pay grade.

  • Engineers and projects are being managed by horrifically underqualified product managers and directors of engineering.

  • Engineers need a real way to voice their concerns, where managers don't have the ability to push it under the rug and pretend everything is fine to their bosses.

  • Learn to fire people who are making life hell.

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