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Software Development Engineer-II
Current Employee
Has worked at Warner Bros. Discovery for 2 years
May 14, 2020
Atlanta, Georgia
3.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

This is a good place to go if you're looking to develop a new skill. They will allow you to learn on the job, even if you have zero knowledge or experience in that skill.

Many teams have very good work-life balance, lots of opportunities to learn & try new things, a beautiful campus, and a great gym.

Cons

If you're looking for a company that prioritizes clean code and best practices, it's not this one. WarnerMedia is all about speed over quality.

You'll find hard-coding, shortcuts, and magic numbers all over production code.

Production outages occur on a regular basis, and people seem to accept this as normal and okay.

The technical debt is enormous, and no one seems to have any kind of plan to tackle it.

There is no bandwidth to fix everything that's broken because there is a constant pressure to keep churning out new features.

It's a mess.

I work overtime pretty much every week.

Advice to Management

"Take time to save time": If code quality was valued just a little more, there wouldn't be so many production bugs. We wouldn't have to constantly rewrite things if we just did them correctly the first time.

Stop pushing your developers to meet impossible deadlines. You're going to burn everyone out.

Back up your words with actions. You say that work-life balance is important, and yet the workload you give us is far more than 45 hours.

You're stuck in a cycle of writing bad code, then having to write more code ASAP due to the bad code.

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