Worst place to work? Probably it is. - Senior Software Engineer/Tech Lead HERE Technologies Employee Review

1.0
30 Aug 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Still a few great colleagues in the Dev Teams. Nice location and terrace. Salary was paid every month.

Cons

Most of the smart and talented colleagues have left the company or are leaving soon. The highly paid but not proportionally talented or first jobers have a good reason to stay. Higher and middle management are terrible in the Automotive group. Director looks all the times at the bug curves or features count. Quantitative old mindset manager. He yells to fix bugs or build more features (depending on the phase of the project), middle managers care only about their golden careers and whip their people to please the top management. It feels like in the 80's. A bad company from the 80's. Promotions are political, who challenges the mid management gets punished, silos culture with kingdoms and incompetent line managers taking technical decisions and competing with each others (lots of duplicate and non-sense work). No real will to improve or become a modern, attractive company for smart talented people. Agile group is another silos ivory tower and there's now also a director of agile. Mostly they're using the Spotify labels maintaining the same structure... It's a very corrupted setup. Nothing is transparent and there are hundreds of meaningless KPIs, it's hard to understand if what you or your team is implementing is useful. Finally my salary was not competitive. I started in 2016, colleagues hired before me had significantly higher salaries. Management at all levels has the highest salary and benefits, huge gap with their direct reports. All the 5 offers I've got in a month of search (same city, similar role) were 20-50% higher. The HERE golden age is over (except for managers).

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5.0
5 May 2026
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Pros

Leadership is very understanding and are clear SME’s that know what their doing. There’s a learning curve that’s complex, but compensation and experience is worth the training.

Cons

Internal operations could be better, but that’s expected with any growing company.

5.0
25 Mar 2026
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Pros

Friendly and supportive team, great work-life balance, and a positive work environment. People are easy to work with and collaboration is smooth across teams.

Cons

There are no major downsides from my experience. Some processes could be improved for efficiency, but overall it’s a solid place to work.

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