No product design, exhausted junior developers - Avis employé Software Engineer RTS Labs

- unbalanced team makeup (80% junior or otherwise unfamiliar) - project management that enjoys talking to hear themselves talk - constant meetings - focus on hiring junior developers - yelling matches between project managers not uncommon - not opposed to having 8-hour long meetings in-office with clients - project managers that inject chaos and confusion in projects they aren't managing or involved with - really like .NET - project managers that don't show up to team meetings - public berating for not being in office for meetings or not managing to complete deadlines given an hour before client demos - assignment and awards based on previous output and speed, incentivizing no testing or adherence to team/project standards - API design that includes the use of one endpoint with params and responses with tens of thousands of keys / hundreds of nested objects - dramatic shift in application scope, requirements, and understanding after months of coding - teammates that 'refuse to learn anything new on this project' - project managers that physically block developers in standup rooms over missed deadlines - flooding of poor interview candidates - project managers who insist that security issues and poor design are 'not our problem' - within the year I was there, there were 4 security breaches, including exposed client information and internal company documentation - jira and confluence - refuse to pay for slack, so all of a team's conversations and uploads are removed from history every few days - slack is often used as the goto for reporting bugs - company refuses to pay for enterprise licensing but offers amazon gift cards as reimbursement for developers who purchase their own licenses - don't always have licenses available for the software depended on, licenses aren't held equally across teams - 'snacks' are offered as one of the benefits