If it walks like a Duck... Corporation before Community
Pros
Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion initiative is a great program and there are many opportunities for people to connect and learn about other groups of people and cultures. There are some really intelligent and nice people that work here. During the pandemic, the company did a good job of communicating and the push for the DE&I initiative, a growth mindset and mindfulness helped build a sense of community amongst the workforce.
Cons
Senior Leadership hides their lack of clear direction and transparency behind the facade of a growth mindset, mindfulness, and DE&I initiatives. Many developers are overworked while it is very hard for junior members to get a good foot in the door. Growth and chances for growth are a roll of the dice, you may get lucky and get quality opportunities for growth and development and you may not. Currently, the internal work environment is high stressed due to recent unexpected layoffs and unclear messages of the company is doing ok. Be forewarned about the callous treatment of employees during the first round of layoffs recently on Nov 30. Duck Creek Senior Leadership chose to follow a template of what not to do when you have to layoff your workers. Short unexpected meetings with no advanced warning, fingers pointed at the employee as an excuse of poor performance with no performance improvement plan or trail of documentation, termination effective after this meeting, a document will be sent to you at your personal email address, at some time later, for you to sign. No HR, no ability to ask questions, no advanced notice, no further information provided. Now employees that remain are feeling the pressure of extreme amounts of scrutiny in deliverables and wondering if they will be next. Senior Leadership says everything is ok but hasn't explained themselves in regards of the unexpected callous treatment of long term employment. Yes, layoffs happen but there is a better way and to me this showed the true colors of what this company really values.
