Factor Eleven Reviews

The tech department at F11 is soul-crushing if you want to accomplish anything worthwhile. Very frequently, you spend hours of needless discussion to try to do simple work that would take minutes to complete. All that time dealing with politics. An immense amount of time is spent handling the fragile egos of others, especially the leadership. Decisions are all illogical and ego-driven. Even with almost the entire department seeing that many decisions are obviously bad, and are then proven to be bad as expected, still nothing changes, because leadership doesn’t accept any input, and doesn’t want to accept anyone else’s idea, just wants to force the idea they had to take credit. All this culture is spread across the whole department, making it very hard to collaborate across the entire department. If you are learning anything new there, being an experienced engineer or not, you need to be careful to not learn bad practices, because as I said above, there’s no critical thinking in any decisions in the department, no idea changes based on feedback from others, every decision is forced by leardership or the ones that carved their influence through politics. It’s shocking how leadership manages to be this disorganized and incompetent in a department of only ~50 people, creating politics on the scale of a tech giant.

Management is disorganized and often unprofessional, with excessive micromanagement. Leadership, including the CEO, gets involved in minor details, which stifles freedom and makes work repetitive. The company culture is close-minded, predominantly male, and lacks focus on diversity or inclusion. There is a significant gap in benefits distribution. Some employees received perks like gym memberships while others, including myself, did not have access to the same privileges or health insurance. Some employees have been with the company for years, despite displaying toxic behavior. These individuals often yell at colleagues and receive negative feedback, yet they are not held accountable and remain with the company, contributing to a toxic work environment.