Tulip Reviews

First, why are negative reviews being removed? The reviews are now misleading because there were at one point over 5 negative reviews warning prospective employees about what they could expect working for Tulip. Strange. The leadership team isn't focusing on the obvious - keeping employees happy. Lunch on Wednesday is great but it takes a lot more to make employees feel valued and happy. The development teams seem pleased but if you take a close look at the product, delivery, sales and marketing teams, there is turnover, job-seeking and/or palpable low morale. Leadership thinks this is the fault of the employees and doesn't realise that they need to take a good hard look at how they are leading the company. A few facts: - Employees fear for their jobs. - Certain leadership members treat employees with disrespect and have even stated that no employee is irreplaceable. - Employees aren't empowered to speak up and disagree with leadership. It's leadership's way or the highway, no matter how large or small the decision may be. - HR can't make a dent in the (negative side of the) company culture because leadership doesn't give them the runway they need to make change.

There are big organizational and management problems in the software department. Teams don't coordinate so nobody knows what anyone else is doing. Decisions get made and nobody knows why or by whom. Because the teams are divided up with unclear and sometimes actually conflicting delineation of responsibility, there's friction. It's not clear who calls the shots so often times conflicting calls get made, only to surface after work has been completed and people are left asking "how did this happen?" It really feels like there are 4 separate software departments each with their own cultures and ideas about how to work. Then, once in a while, the CEO will appear and mandate something as specific as how the code is structured. Whether or not you have an opportunity to advance as a dev and do what you want to do, and how much stress you're under, really depends on what team you end up on. Even whether or not you can switch teams completely depends on where you are.