Comscore Software Engineer reviews

* Excessive focus on hour tracking, even for salaried employees - including software engineers. - There were debates about how to log hours for lunch and holidays in JIRA. Wat. - Despite direct managers pushing to keep this extensive hour tracking updated, it was pretty clear it wasn't actually being *used* for anything. * Silly, useless management decisions. - They removed all internal office window blinds in the interest of 'transparency'. Seriously. - Continuing decrease in quality and quantity of perks like snacks and drinks. * History of quasi-criminal shenanigans at higher levels of management that is still impacting the company. * Weird addition of offshore employees to teams whose managers did not understand why they were getting them. - Most of the offshore employees didn't work out, but sucked large amounts of training time down. - Caused morale problems and general confusion, especially over job security. * Decrepit Perl codebase full of broken custom implementations of now-standard Perl modules, meaning there's little to nothing in the way of documentation. - Few best practices are followed. - They were literally anti-comment for years- you can go for dozens of modules without finding a *single* line of commented code. - No one knows what large portions of the codebase are even for anymore. * Deep, in-grained acceptance of awful, long, and delicate manual procedures for doing all sorts of common tasks; half of the work being done at any given time was manual 'busy-work'. * No understanding of continuous deployment/integration despite claims to the contrary; going from code to actual deployment has to go through several other teams for manual sign-off or handling by each and the process takes days to weeks. * First 'all-hands' involved a handful of people cramming into a small glass-walled conference room, while 90% of employees stood outside and tried to watch and listen to what was going on from outside. * You're ultimately working to help advertisers - you're not exactly making the world a better place. It's hard to wake up in the morning just to make sure your code produces the right numbers for some marketing drone's spreadsheet.

Lower wages compared to market, too many re-orgs in the company and unstable upper level management