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Burnout culture

Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Wealthsimple for less than 1 year
January 31, 2021
Toronto, ON
2.0
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros
  • Lots of nice and smart people
  • Good compensation
  • Opportunities to grow and learn
Cons
  • The company claims to care about their employees while in fact it's encouraged to work long hours and many people do so including top management which shows the example to others. And I haven't heard this being discussed as a culture issue, it's rather promoted as a sign of ownership.

  • Questionable product decisions, lots of tech debt, 'keep it simple' principle usually means that let's build something hardly scalable and maintainable for the sake of achieving short-term goals, constant change in direction

  • Poor engineering onboarding, you need to ramp up yourself

Advice to Management

Employees consistently working overtime might bring the company profits short-term, but long-term, it proves to be the cause of bad decisions and low quality of product.

Additional Ratings

Work/Life Balance
1.0
Culture and Values
2.0
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
3.0
Career Opportunities
4.0
Compensation and Benefits
5.0
Senior Management
3.0

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