- stuck in the dark ages work/life balance wise
- thinks they’re a startup, planning to 5x their company but they refuse to invest in paying well or hiring enough people
- expects startup work hours (50-60 hours a week, people regularly work weekends) but won’t pay beyond a mediocre salary (10 year engineer has to fight for $135k, no equity or bonus)
- will lie to you in the interview process about the company and projects being stable
- remote but will give you zero life flexibility, expect to be chained to your desk for 9 hours a day (yes you are expected to be available for 9 hours a day but if you’re away from your desk for more than a half hour you will be yelled at)
- you will be given a desktop, no laptop, and your manager will complain if you try to take a meeting from anywhere other than your home office
- they will give you a desktop and peripherals from 2015 despite being a hardware management company. My webcam was literally an Amazon Chinese camera with no brand on it
- absolutely inept tech leadership
- terrible quality codebases
- you will be working on amateur products built by people with no real professional coding experience
- your boss will challenge every estimate you give on work and then fire you if you complain too much
- you will be expected to work stories that have no refinement with tons of ambiguity, if you miss deadlines it will be your fault despite them refusing to hire a product owner
- business is built on legacy early 2000s Oracle products that are very hard to work with and understand
- management wants to introduce yet another unstable ERP to the business lifecycle
- you will be expected to get up to speed on this system in less than a month with zero documentation and no solid resources
