Micromanagement & dysfunctional internal competition - Senior Software Engineer/Engineering Manager NewStore Employee Review

- 2020 was a tough year. Because of Corona, benefits like learning budget were cut, and people were openly displeased. Some of the best technical talents left. You can see other feedback in this page about that. - Mandatory on-call duty. All team members are expected to take part on it. - While it's a startup with < 200 people, it has too many hierarchy levels and internal politics, like a big company. You'll have to face a couple of entitled, status-seeking individuals who'll lick their way up in the internal food chain. - It markets as a product-based company, yet internally it feels like an agency or a sweatshop for developers. The product needs to be highly customized for each client, and they expect features to be instantly available, so that creates a high-pressure environment in the bottom line. - Internal productivity metrics promote unhealthy internal teams' competition. Teams are measured & compared internally mainly on how fast they deliver tickets. Such metrics are generally not transparent to developers, only shared between managers, and this creates an environment that almost feels like the famous Stanford Prison Experiment (Google it). Some team leads' attitudes (especially the high-performing ones) are creepy, yet validated by such metrics. - Micromanagement hell at scale supported by C-level and HR. Do you really believe a top-down weekly feedback cycle is healthy?