A once great ship that is sinking fast
Pros
- There are some good humans still left that I genuinely miss working with on a daily basis - The cafeteria is convenient, and the humans that work there are lovely
Cons
- Lower than average salaries for the industry with minimal raises (even for cost of living) - Policies and timelines surrounding promotions and raises keep changing - WT used to build above average software, but it doesn’t really have standards anymore - Constantly seeing your teammates leave is hard - There have been at least 4 rounds of layoffs in 3 years - Zero attention or care is given to employee satisfaction or trying to be a “great place to work” (incidentally, that started the year they sold for $1.25 billion, laid off a bunch of humans 6 months later, and then they stopped asking us to fill out that survey…) - Everybody left is constantly making jokes about the day TELUS fires everybody in North America - They lie to a class of interns every year, leading them to believe that they could be hired. Interns are used the for cheap labor, and then sent on their way. The company hasn’t hired any in at least 2 years. - The thing that made WT a good place to work wasn’t that it was ever perfect but that it was fair to say that “people cared”, and when there was a problem, there was always a way to talk to someone about it and a path to try to make it better. That is no longer true. Now, bad (and often poorly considered) policies go into effect on a regular basis, and it feels like there is almost some level of joy coming from the higher ups in the way that they are “sticking it to entitled employees that used to have too much power”
