Ex-Roamer, soon-to-be ex-SE employee - Anonymous employee Stellar Elements Employee Review

Where to even start? Roam Digital was a company with great culture and work-life balance. Plenty of chapter lunches, talks, workshops and other ways of sharing knowledge. It didn't feel as a workplace, it was more of a geek club where you were motivated to improve just by seeing how good people who surround you are. Working on client projects, while intense at times, was also a way to try out new technologies. You could both earn and learn. Now comes the acquisition. At first nothing changes too much, then suddenly everything goes downhill. Salaries frozen (despite Amdocs showing the previous quarter as the most profitable in the company history EVER) - supposedly to avoid layoffs... and of course there are layoffs very shortly after. They request everyone to get back to the office for at least 3 days a week, just because. Even if you work on international projects, even if you connect via VPN and only deal with clients remotely, you still need to sit in the office like an obedient minion. The vast majority of really skilled people left and found better paid jobs with better culture. More people are likely to follow as soon as the stupid "hybrid work policy" kicks in on January 1st. I mean, why would you want to stay here if anywhere else you get at least 20% more salary and much better working conditions? And you know what's the worst? People stopped even jokingly complain about the company situation. Heck, even the company Slack is a ghost town: in the last week there have been *12* threads on the general chat channel. A few months ago there would be more discussion every day by the time for lunch. We got to the point where no one cares. I'm pretty sure everyone else has sent out at least as many CVs as I have. So as much as I loved being a part of Roam, I honestly feel sick when I think about staying at Stellar Elements. I can no longer "earn" nor "learn" here so it's about time to abandon the sinking ship.