No career progress - Software Engineer Liberty IT Employee Review

You can read the previous two reviews (March and May 2017) as well to have a good view about this company, I basically agree with all they said. - There's no control over technologies or skills of employees. You can be moved randomly from one technology to another completely different which will impede any career progression. Even if you are flexible and "agile" as they tell you to be and you are able to change, when deciding promotions it won't be taken in consideration at all and you'll be asked to have years under the same technology. It didn't only happen to me, I have talked with other people and it is quite a common practice that somebody per example trained in .NET ends up in SQL-only project and later on moved to JavaScript. In general, nobody will track your reviews from previous managers/projects either. - You can be moved to projects or departments where there is no work to do at all. This can be fine if you don't really want to do any work at all, but harmful if you want to learn and get valuable experience. At the same time you can see some interesting projects you could be doing, being outsourced which makes no sense. On the other hand, some departments are put into a lot of pressure and they don't get much credit from the differences of workload. I'm aware as well of some people moved to different projects without their entire consent. - There are a lot of departments that get you assigned to a main project that give you some room to do side projects as well. If it happens that your main project is slow or non-demanding, even if you do a great job with side projects, it is unlikely you will get promoted for that work. In some departments, you have to be the one looking for things to do, listening and being quick to join interesting side projects. - Even though from the management it is said that there are a lot of opportunities to promote, move careers or departments, internal openings are very opaque. There isn’t any list of specific requirements to promote from one level to the next, so it will be left to your manager's choice. I know as well that some people wanting to become principal or manager got blocked from management or got directly rejected in all open internal positions as those spots are usually opened for a specific person. Very valuable people is leaving because the lack of promotions and the lack of proper reasons from the company management in that regard. Speaking with some colleagues, I'm aware as well that some people that get most of the week or all week WFH are being blocked from promotions just because not being in the office, even though it is written in their contracts and it is allowed company wide. - Company policies are written on stone. You'll be asked to be flexible and agile, but the moment you'd have any problems or wanted to review a specific rule that applies to you, it will take forever from HR to do. The company brags constantly to care and listen to their employees, but their actions don't match up. -And last but not least. VERY LOW SALARY and very low bonus. Before they might have been competitive, but now that promotions are blocked for the majority of the people, you can find Software Engineers with 8 -12 years experience that are not being promoted to Senior, Associates with 2 - 3 years experience and so on; so you can check in this very website and decide if the salary is or not fair. As in many companies, you'll get what you negotiate when joining. The bonus is very low for lower levels and almost non-depending on your good/bad performance which can discourage better employees to keep improving.