- I have a feeling that some heads of engineering are not a cultural fit for the company. I personally had a bad experience with mine that I felt was borderline discriminatory. I have heard from other colleagues who had a similar experience. I had a case where another head of engineering vetoed the hiring of a perfectly good candidate just because the candidate had never heard of some niche terminology. - I feel like either HR doesn't have any power in the company or is incompetent. I reported the discrimination I felt from the Head of Engineering to HR, but no action was taken, and the person is still working in the company. I had several other bad experiences with HR too, where a simple problem was solved only after escalating it through upper management. They once sent a hoodie with the company branding without asking for anyone's size. Of course, many people received the wrong size and had to return or donate the hoodie they received. -I feel like the C-level executives are always hiding the truth from the company. This happened when there was a data leak, when the company couldn't raise investment, and during layoffs. They have never explained what is going on. When layoffs happened, we didn't even know who had left and who was still working. The person with whom you were solving a problem yesterday was suddenly removed from everywhere, and you'd find out about it from their corporate chat account being disabled. - Introducing a new tool became a huge challenge. It might take months to introduce a new tool. You'd need to convince plenty of people who will never even use the tool just to get things approved. It's also difficult to introduce a new library into the code. I think all of this will significantly hinder the tech stack's progress over time. - Salaries are below the market avarage. When trying to negotiate it they try to lowball your achievements. - There is no company benefit except the free Prime Broker account. The upper management explains it as "We'd rather have high salaries than benefits". But they don't even have avarage market salaries as I wrote above.
