data org is toxic, especially the data engineering team - Anonymous employee Turo Employee Review

The head of data org is a data analytics manager who has zero engineering background. He doesn't show enough ability to support or lead data engineering team and just simply blaming. Data org head laid off the entire sub data engineering team to respond to the low company survey rating. They don't care about people or their careers, refuse to open to feedback/fixing issues, they just need their 'leader' positions secured and make sure no one dare give a low rating. Clearly they know how to abuse the authority to protect themselves not put company/people first, seems they forgot they are the very first ones to blame if any failures. The most ridiculous part is the ex data platform manager who should take the responsibility directly was kept. This person as a manager never ran standups/roadmaps/etc and almost everyone from the entire team complained him about his rude behaviors and big ego. The data engineering team is weak and its culture is toxic. There is no leadership or people skills or fairness in this team. The leaders are emotional, frequently making random&low quality decisions to do whatever they want. It's becoming a new data analytics team under the head of the data org. There is a performance review every three months. Basically your manager can write whatever they like to destroy you. You have no chance to speak for yourself. This is one of the worst teams at Turo. Avoid to join it if you want a healthy working environment or you need positive career growth.