- New management seems to be finally moving the culture in the direction the last CEO intended; performance culture.
- Management is tracking notorious metrics like MR/PR submission and comment counts, LOCs, etc, and using them to rank people.
- Salary is mid to low end; no other forms of comp. Options were underwater till the board recently took action to bring it back to near 0. Potential eng candidates were usually lost when they had another offer.
- Some teams lack process and coordination which is causing coordination and burnout hardships.
- Recently roles were re-leveled to pull in more requirements related to AI and requirements from the level above them.
- With an extreme push on AI initiatives, the company seems more feature, driven rather than value / problem driven.
- There seems to be a downward trend on work, life balance, but this is most likely intentional. The company has internally announced the intention to change the culture so this is most likely intentional. Unfortunately this is causing burnout amount a number of engineers.
