Supportive colleagues hindered by poor management and outdated tech - Senior Software Engineer Henry Schein One Employee Review

Unfortunately, there are many... - Team leads and managers are a gang of friends. Gossip, favouritism, double standards are common place. - Managers will often bad mouth people ( their own superiors included ) within earshot of others. - CONSTANT reshuffling of teams, both people and remits. This makes the company feel less like a mature structure with a strategy, and more of a "what can we throw people onto, so that we can make a quick buck". - Product direction and planning is abysmal, as features are frequently rushed to release without requirements properly outlined. The blame is then placed directly on Engineers and QA when things go wrong. - Company claims to be cutting edge, however is stuck in tech debt hell due to a niche and archaic tech stack. - Company pushes for AI driven development in order to stay relevant, however majority of AI tools have been banned: Claude Code, Github or Microsoft Copilot, any in-browser or local LLM... You are ONLY allowed to use a bare-bones setup of Cursor. Automations, plugins, MCPs will all be disabled (save for Slack and Jira integrations). - You are encouraged to use older and weaker models, in order to save on your token budget, as you will reach your allocated monthly budget within 3 days.