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Avoid like the plague

Software Development Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Zoom for 1 year
April 18, 2022
San Jose, California
2.0
Pros

Very remote-friendly work environment.

Good benefits and compensation.

Cons

Poor work-life balance

  • My boss regularly starts stand-up applauding employees for working until 3 AM.
  • My team lead easily works 80+ hours a week.
  • More than once, I was told (not asked) to work a weekend on very short notice.

Painfully inadequate development environment.

  • After 6+ months of working here, I still do not have most hardware my position requires, even with talking to IT on a near-daily basis.
  • It took over 5 months to get a license to an IDE required on a major platform (Visual Studio).
  • Needlessly cryptic errors occur frequently with the backend development environment, with no information given to devs on how to resolve them.
  • Native engineers are not given full access or tooling required to build the full client. Debugging requires queuing a full client Jenkins build, downloading it once finished, replacing binaries with locally built debug ones, and attaching a debugger to the client.
  • Bugs reported internally are held to no standard; reproduction is often just a title with no description on prerequisites or context.

Rampant rubber-stamping preferred over any sort of testing infrastructure.

  • No automated testing. None.
  • Preference on tools like TestRail, requiring the creation of many manual test cases by hand (most are never referenced or checked again after creation).
Advice to Management

Honestly, there is so much that is broken, I'm not sure how you recover from this so late into the company's existence.

Additional Ratings

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

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