Leadership are unsympathetic and closed minded. Startups you will work a lot which is granted but this is beyond that. They work you long hours 6 or 7 days a week, promote a culture of giving updates late at night to show you are working, no acknowledgment, or giving time to uncompress. 15 days of PTO combined with medical leave is lowest in industry and they ask you to justify taking time off even when you earned it. Leadership frequently calls out engineers in public forums for being slow and blame them for schedule slips. stuck in the past using email chains for everything. no process, little documentation that is kept up to date other than very high level. They still will call you on your time off and expect you to work. monolithic antiquated programming practices rule here. No CI/CD. only giant complex releases that are delayed weeks or months. They want locals and remote folks to come to the office every week even though its largely empty and unnecessary. This company is the same people in 4th iteration. they just can't grow this way. Any new engineers they hire quickly leave once they find out what its really like there. Warning they straight out lie in interview process offering all sort of benefits that don't exist. This is pandemonium.
