If they put the effort they're spending gaming Glassdoor into running the company... - Anonymous employee Backstop Solutions Employee Review

They put up fake Glassdoor reviews to try to paper over the toxic culture that's grown as the management that has any experience working for a software company has all either left or been forced out and replaced by people who couldn't hack it in finance. The Peter Principle applies to just about everyone above the IC level in the org chart. The fake reviews talk about a lack of politics and a feeling of accountability. Maybe they should hold people accountable for the bad decisions of the Board of Directors, like the nightmarish outsourcing process and the terrible code they're producing, or the lies that the CEO of the company told us to our faces about that process. They're hemorrhaging people from the most technical and hard to hire roles and don't seem to understand why so many of us left, often not even bothering to schedule exit interviews with us. There's a lot of duplicity and lack of accountability throughout the management structure. The company's goals seem aimed at appeasing the CEO's ego instead of actually making a product people want to use and helping them learn how to use it. Development priorities were rearranged after he discovered people were making fun of him and his software company on a private mailing list. The new CTO wants developers to own their code, but organizational dysfunction means you're too busy putting out fires for the largest clients to ever spend time fixing past mistakes. They are too afraid to let you ship anything remotely risky in an innovate or die space. When everything is priority one, nothing is a priority. Tech stack is Java and Oracle. Nothing is clustered, and the project that was working on that was shuttered and that team all left. There's barely any validation on anything in the back end, though this may be changing. We went through a whole process of developing and articulating values, and then the company reneged on them in the space of a year. If you're desperate for a job, and can make it through their unnecessarily stringent US interview process, you could also just get hired at a place that will pay you what you're worth and treat you with respect.