It's a shame that the cons outweighed even those very solid pros
Developer Stress
Feature requests from customers can come at any time and get pushed directly onto software developers with almost no notice
Management expects developers to fulfill these sudden and absolute deadlines along with anything else scoped for each 5-week cycle, even if that means (to paraphrase one manager) taking time out of sleep to finish
All engineers additionally have to sit in long customer meetings when bugs or questions arise
Toxic Culture
To fit in as an engineer, you'd better be a white/Asian frat bro in your 20s with no family or other home commitments
Borderline hazing toward new employees when arbitrary procedures are not followed to the tee
Respect is earned and ideas adopted by being the loudest, most argumentative, "scariest" person in the room
Any feedback brought up to higher-ups was not only discounted, but also treated as hostile, discouraging any negative comments
C-Suite made baseless personal accusations about a competitor's leadership in an effort to sway my signing decision, super unprofessional
Messy Codebase
Amazing how a simulation company has software that runs so slowly, with brute-force, memory-intensive procedures now ossified into its architecture that they're just recently starting to care about because they pass on the costs of execution to their customers
Junior developers get hit the hardest trying to clean up all the code debt that the senior developers introduced in previous years' rush to get a product out
