Huge egos and uncertainty - Senior Software Engineer ActBlue Employee Review

2.0
1 Mar 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Good mission (supporting Democracy and all) - Work is fully remote - Work/life balance is mostly good

Cons

- Work is reactive and not well planned, if management says "this is important" you have to drop everything and do that thing - Leadership have fragile egos and respond poorly to feedback - Technical stack is old and hard to change without affecting all teams, it's quite old and crufty - There's no way to quantify risk tolerance, so things rarely change because people are afraid for their jobs if they make a mistake

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5.0
1 June 2025
Recommend
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Pros

- Very organized - Straightforward - Every was nice and easy to work with

Cons

- I have no big complaints

2.0
30 Mar 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Mission orientation. Good pay and benefits. Union representation. Talented staff.

Cons

In short: abysmal and hostile leadership. Leadership is hostile to employees, sometimes even openly in large meetings. They despise the unions and try to undermine them at every step. Promotions are stifled except for leadership themselves. Huge initiatives are often canceled and ICs have received the blame despite raising objections. Employees and teams are pitted in proxy wars against each other. The environment is generally quite toxic and maddening, leading the best talent to burn out and leave. Overall very disappointing for an organization that should be much better.

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