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Run....Don't do it!! - Engineer General Assembly Employee Review

1.0
5 Nov 2019
Recommend
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Pros

- Great mission - Really nice people - Dog-friendly

Cons

I don't even know where to begin. The place is just so disorganized and morale is really low as a result. It's just a mess. I am very suspicious about all these positive reviews here. I would never recommend anyone to work here. - I have no confidence in the leadership team. All of them just quit in the blink of an eye and we had to wait months to know what was going on. The new leaders are just ALL talk. Old ones were about the same too. I don't believe one word they say. They love talking the talk but not walking the walk. - It's not a fun place to be an engineer or a product manager. Not a great place to advance your career. The systems really suck! 5,000,000,000 internal apps and most of them try to reinvent the wheel. They are terrible to work on as the processes are not all standardized. Leadership has no plan to deal with them...they just expect teams to keep doing patchwork. Also, engineers and managers end up doing a lot of manual work that has no business being done by them. Makes doing any and everything very slow. - They made a decision to hire different types of engineers QA, Dev Ops and Drupal had a huge plan for them to make a host of much-needed enhancements. Then the previous leaders left and the new leaders fired these engineers and Started a new team. - The CEO is always in hiding and when he does make an appearance he makes very problematic comments. I guess that's why he is in hiding and no one seems to like him. - HR is an absolute waste of time and a nightmare. Have an issue? Forget it. You will be more stressed out after going to HR. They do not support the employees. Especially minority groups. - Technical product managers are the most unhappy in the company. They score very low on how they feel about their work which is super sad. - The teams are always changing names just feels like a huge distraction, smoke and mirrors. Every quarter there is a new team with a new name. Enough already! - Compensation isn't great and they say they support pay equity in public but behind closed doors, they say completely different things. Also, HR is very defensive when it comes to this and very unwilling to budge. - They love to market themselves as this progressive company for the PR benefits but don't want to make the actual changes. - Seemed like a select few were getting promotions every 3 months. Then HR will tell you that they have a STRICT 14-month raise and promotion cycle. It's all smoke and mirrors. It amazes me how so many people stay for so long. I hope many of them are looking to get out because they deserve better.

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