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
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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
3 Mar 2026
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Pros

fantastic culture Degrees of giving

Cons

Lots of change recently, but excited about where we are headed

3.0
25 Feb 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Lots of PTO comparatively to other US based companies Good benefits Onsite cafe and marketplace Onsite fitness center Various employee led resource groups Many Helping Hands charity groups and opportunities to get involved with volunteering

Cons

Pay lower than industry standards during most of my time there. Now under Kroger's death grip. They are a wholly owned subsidiary of Kroger and was promised a level of autonomy but at this point they just do whatever Kroger tells them to do. Instead of promoting internally with tenured and qualified folks they chose to fill middle and upper management with folks from other typical poorly managed US corporations with poor corporate culture. Who then proceeded to take those same poor management skills and lack of culture and bring the company down. Many rounds of layoffs. The remaining people and future employees need to keep their heads on a swivel looking for the grim reaper as they may be next to get laid off as Kroger continues to completely eliminate and offshore jobs. Feels like the proverbial stuff hit the fan when the Albertson's merger failed and they got sued (all public knowledge), then the CEO, Rodney Mullins got kicked out the door (with a golden parachute of course) for inappropriate activities (of which we will never find out), also all public news.

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