Managers are terrible - Software Development Engineer (SDE) Audible Employee Review

2.0
Apr 27, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

- office is well decorated and the free food is good - amenities offered are great

Cons

- terrible upper management - heavy virtue signaling, fake kindness is rampant. Managers speaking poorly of other managers and employees openly is very common. - upper management is “untouchable” and untrustworthy, beware of sweet words and always get things in writing. - beware of what you share with managers - unwelcoming, a lot of managers and employees alike will speak their native language in meetings and in the office, often leaving non speakers in the dark and needing clarification. Was able to work around this for the most part, but at times felt like i didn’t belong.

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