Skillful team but plagued by management issues
Pros
- very skillful team, there was something to learn from any member; - a very high level of kindness, understanding and trust inside the team (with very few exceptions), we formed quite a cohesive group in which any teammate knew the others were very reliable; - bleeding edge (not quite, but close enough) tech stack; - challenging role, always something new to learn / grow into;
Cons
- blurry lines between actual role and job description, sometimes you had to do more than agreed (read: free labor); - certain teammates' egos surfacing a bit too much, manifested as unjustifiable bossiness; - severely understaffed and fully overworked, yet instead of hiring engineers, they hired more managers - adding 0 value, yet they have been letting engineers go on ridiculous grounds (myself included); - HR incompetence is next-level, they fail to deliver on officially promised performance reviews for 2 years straight; - following last year's massive departures, when a number of senior members / managers left at the same time, management quality went abysmally low, there have been no more KPIs, no more OKRs, they stopped caring about measuring work results at all - probably because the current managers have got no idea how to do it in the first place - all they seem to care about nowadays is useless meetings and how to cram more people in an already crowded office;
