Pros
- Product with great potential - Some excellent engineers that make it worth the torcher - Lunch on Friday
Cons
Not the best place for anyone in the technology industry, especially software developers who care about personal and career growth and learning. Leadership within the technology areas are extremely short sighted and closed minded. They tend to make arbitrary decisions that cause you to always take steps backwards instead of allowing you to be creative and giving you the tools and teams you need to implement ideas and get the job done. At this company, with new leadership coming on board, it somehow became normal to trash-talk the company's own software and processes and the developers who built it. Technology moves at a snail's pace here, and leadership talks and talks without being able to gain any forward momentum. If you're ever in meetings with senior managers, you'll find it's a competition for who can sound the smartest when none of them actually know what they're really talking about. There is a culture of blame, finger pointing, and "do what you're told". There is no trust or camaraderie between senior management and the staff doing the work from what I can see. Leadership does not seem interested in anyone's opinion or input, and they operate on a power trip instead of actually utilizing the talent that they have (or used to have). The past few years has seen a very high turnover rate with software engineers after many many years of very low turnover. Everytime someone at senior position leaves there is an evident power grab from senior managers. Some senior managers and directors (including HR) are rude and insulting to staff, and it is unfortunately evident that even human resources seems to now be turning a blind eye to such happenings. The company and it's management are not technology oriented and seem to be out of touch with what it takes to run an effective, efficient, and happy software development organization.