Terrible middle management ruins everything - Software Engineer Medidata Solutions Employee Review

3.0
13 June 2019
Recommend
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Pros

- Flexible and relaxed working environment. - First class office in an excellent location. - Good tech stack, which attracts smart engineers. - Decent travel opportunities.

Cons

- The middle management is severely incompetent, takes credit for everything that goes right and shifts the blame to someone else when things go wrong. As a result, it is very difficult to get promoted or recognised if you are not a manager. - Offshore teams that have no idea what they are doing. - Mediocre salary. - No effective feedback cycle, objectives, or career development. - Very bad engineering practices that come from management and their desire to deliver things quickly, which results in bad quality software, a lot of bugs and late hours trying to fix the bugs and release them.

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Medidata Solutions Response
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Thank you for your feedback. We are happy to hear that you appreciate the flexible environment at Medidata. Career development is important to us, so we offer a variety of live in-person and virtual on-demand resources and trainings for employees and people leaders. We strive to deliver a best-in-class platform for our customers. How we run our engineering teams is directly tied to that. We continue to work on our processes and approach to meet our high standards, innovate and effectively manage the teams that deliver this great work.

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Cons

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