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Worst decision in my 12 years of IT experience. Worked an average of 10+ hours a day

Senior Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Wells Fargo for 1 year
January 27, 2022
San Francisco, California
1.0
Doesn't Recommend
Pros

I found some good colleagues. I am thankful for that.

Cons

People keep on saying that they worked last night and expect others to work or help them at the same time. There's no work-life balance. I left the company in 9 months (I wanted to leave immediately, but due to visa switching, I had to wait).

Technical leads are not capable of fixing any major bugs and keep on saving themselves by fixing typos in code and doing fake work. Some good developers are there by nature and code-wise, but their effect is limited to management.

They may have understood the lead will fix meetings at odd times. They kind of bully you if you make technical suggestions. Nobody will take your improvements and suggestions.

QA will message you on the weekend to complete their stories.

People keep on discussing things as if nothing is clear in between sprints. There are 3-4 hour meetings, and then they expect you to work for 8 hours. In 2-week sprints, they want you to complete them in 1 week and then keep on adding new work.

Advice to Management

Management has no idea about how much work the team is doing. They count story points and compare with teams that can manipulate sprint points.

Our team was doing great work, and this appeared to them after the project came to an end. For a whole six months, they kept pushing that this team was not doing much work. Then they picked another team and started doing the same with them.

Additional Ratings

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

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