Merger, corporate big heads, and RTO mandates are going to crush this company. Stay away! - Software Engineer 84.51° Employee Review

2.0
3 Jan 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Good pay, benefits, and 40 days of PTO etc.

Cons

While there are still some things that I do really like about this company. In my short tenure I've experienced some very strong business political bias. We had a new manager and multiple developers replace half our team from another big name corporation to work on a new product. The new manager gave all the developers that came with him good ratings and all the existing developers bad ratings, even though we were clearly the more productive side and onboarding everyone. Talk about a way to build employee resentment. We are also facing hybrid mandates in March and Full-Time mandates in 2025. This is going to crush our company. Many senior-developers and key figures moved away because we were told multiple times we would remain fully remote. I guess this is just a way for them to layoff all the over-hiring they did during COVID without having to pay severance. In addition to this for some reason the company thought it would be a great idea to completely restructure right before starting development for a product. So, everyone is trying to understand their new team functions, while also understanding a completely new idea for our biggest product. It is a mess and we are 6 months late and due to a big slack pickup from contractors there is a lot of broken code and lost knowledge.

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5.0
5 May 2026
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Pros

Challenging, exciting problems and assignments. Brilliant colleagues.

Cons

Recent churn and reorganizations have damaged morale. Challenging pricing pressures and economic conditions for consumer.

3.0
2 Jul 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Business outlook

Pros

Cool work, smart coworkers, potential to make an impact.

Cons

The CEOs downfall will be his refusal to action on the problem which is his continued tolerance of leaders who are in over their heads, value their own brand images and posturing over being impactful, and who consistently underperform, frustrate, and hinder the potential impacts of their broader teams in the process. The majority of the organization is competent and self motivated but is hindered by lack of prioritization within business unit, low leadership competence below the CEO, and inability of leadership to make decisions which kills progress and has led to great employees checking out (or leaving) which will continue until the barriers to making a true impact (senior leadership) are addressed. In spite of the aforementioned issues it is cool work and impactful with lots of potential, just unnecessarily muted due to aforementioned leadership problems.

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