The only challenge here is dealing with all of the bureaucracy - Senior Software Engineer MuleSoft Employee Review

1.0
12 Sept 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You can sit around doing nothing a lot of the time, and still get as much done as everyone else. Free food 3 times a week Not everyone smells like BO

Cons

* Your job (as an engineer) will be to get people to do stuff for you, and to tell people what you are doing. You'll do almost no engineering work. * Saturday deploy (that is manual, and takes hours) * Lack of managers with an engineering background * Lack of good decision making from higher-ups * Too many meetings (I get maybe 2 hours of focused time) * Lack of focus on issues, rather focus on sellable marketing * No team cohesion (every team is a wild west) * Everything moves slowly * Teams use scrum horribly wrong, causing even more wasted time Honestly, everything that happens here is a con. Any time some issue happens in the company, policy is always the solution. Not fixing the actual problem, but just adding more process to slow stuff down even more. The teams are completely disorganized. Too many people trying to do the same work means everyone needs to understand it all, so there are always meetings to involve everyone. There is no database guru, so it's a mess.

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MuleSoft Response
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This was tough to read, and I wish you would have brought this feedback to me or anyone on the leadership team. We use open and honest feedback in the form of radical candor and our anonymous employee engagement survey to make real changes and improvements. While I accept you raising issues about team leadership, culture, and processes, seeing such negative commentary on your teammates in a public setting is disappointing, as it directly hurts the individuals on the team and the company we are all trying to build together. In our recent employee engagement survey, when asked "Would you recommend MuleSoft as a great place to work?", less than 7% of our engineers would not. We try to get better every day for everyone, including the 7% who feel we need to improve the most. We cannot improve though if we don’t embrace our core values of owning it and being respectful. If you think our release cycle is too manual or there are issues with your colleagues, talk to us about why you feel this way and how you think it can be improved so we can fix it. We want everyone to bring their best ideas forward so we can make MuleSoft better each day. A company is nothing more than a group of humans, with all our aspirations and faults, just trying to improve to the best of our ability. We not only encourage direct, candid feedback but expect it from everyone. I hope you'll consider a constructive way to affect change.

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