A Toxic Clique - Senior Software Engineer CharityJob Employee Review

This was such a toxic place to work. The distance of a few minutes was all it took to realise how bad the environment was. There is a core group of people who've done the same thing for the same company for a decade and they are the ones that are listened to. If the family likes you, you are a made (wo)man. If the family doesn't like you, there's nothing to be done. They were a small company that hustled and did well to become a medium company. With no change in leadership and listening only to the people who will echo their own words, they're spinning their wheels trying to make a medium company work with the tactics of a small company. And it's making them smaller. People are leaving. So, if you don't care about the quality of your work, you can cruise along and get paid. Join in with the talks about making things better knowing you'll never have to achieve any of them because nothing changes, because change is bad. They want different results, but don't want to change anything. They're that person eating a Big Mac and talking about how they're going to go to the gym. But tomorrow. Never today.