Good if you love cars, intransparent and frustrating management/organization - Senior Software Developer BMW Car IT Employee Review

- Intransparent communication from management. Information like team structure changes and personal departures are often only communicated shortly before becoming active, although they have been decided long before - Lots of politics, with many Yes Men in lower leadership roles, very shy of taking responsibility - Slow progress in organizational, management and project topics: lots of announcements and updates, with realization often taking years - Very long time-frames for product/project development - new projects often are started years before planned public release - Agile working mode is often not really achieved: scrum master role is generally not filled, plus the long term waterfall planning and project structuring on the AG side limits the agility often - Bad processes, tooling and BMW-specific technology in a lot of places. This makes many basic tasks and integration very difficult, and the problems always have to be solved inside the teams, leading to lots of home-brewing and "not-invented-here" solutions - Lots of buerocracy, on all levels - Many demotivated, less talented colleagues especially on the AG side - Not a lot of autonomy in the bigger picture, the big decisions are all made inside the AG in Munich. - Post mortems or lessions learned generally seem to be avoided, leading to lots of churn and the same mistakes being repeated constantly - Weird and annoying Ulm-site rules like "last two people in one office wing have to leave together" - Many qualified people seem to leave after not too long - Management of external contractors can quickly become a big part of your job as a developer, depending on the project - Worse compensation and contract conditions than equivalent roles in the AG - No works council, no "Tarifvertrag", no 35 hour week - Very limited bonus system