Avantages
If you want to work <20hrs and earn a low-range salary, this is the place. - Easy to coast. Didn't make a difference when I tried vs when I did nothing. Managers didn't seem to know or care enough. - Company incentivizes to avoid ownership. You don't get any reward for taking risks anyways. It makes things easier if you want to do nothing and coast.
Inconvénients
If you want to grow, this is not the place. - Managers are all words no actions. Practically useless when it comes to getting anything done. Along with PMs who don't know anything besides filing useless tickets, they love to plan all year and get nothing done. - Business model rewards sales to bring in any contracts. Often times the contract bakes in something that is not supported by the product. So N clients = N different configurations => unscalable product. - At this company, engineers are just mere developers not problem solvers. Instead of engineers owning the product, PMs and managers own the products. The cherry on top is the organization is divided by stack not by domain. Getting anything done is pretty much impossible. Again, talking to PMs or managers doesn't really help. - They actually treat engineers like garbage. Low pay, gaslighty management, stories I hear / stuff I personally experiences (that I won't share for obvious reasons) and the fact that they started hiring contractors because they couldn't find full time hires all show how leaders really think about the employees. - Because you don't get rewarded for risk taking, no one wants to take charge. This makes getting anything done very hard. Leadership doesn't seem to care as all they care about is giving each other a pat on the back at self-celebratory all hands. - For a company that's been around for awhile, technology is very bad. Engineering quality is sub-par and the quality of engineers has gotten worse after the merger.
