Management out for itself - Software Engineer Bohemia Interactive Simulations Employee Review

Great place to work. Gain a lot of knowledge. There is a lot of teamwork and this is a great work environment.

There are no cons when it comes to working at Bohemia Interactive Simulations.

During the transition period between one owner to another, it was easy to just work and be left alone. That ended in 2023 with the finalization of the acquisition.

What was once the story of the team and its talent has become a story of the management team and their brilliant and brutal axe use to churn the attrition chum pot. Mixed messages from the moment the new team took over. Expand the offices but cut staff. Created a bizarre bonus structure that allowed people to "nominate" each other for minor "award bonuses" which from the jump felt like kindergarden style sniping games. Cringe restrictions on the touted "exciting new bonus opportunities" even limited the number of dollars spent and required a lot of sucking up and "free extra work and donations of your invention" to get anywhere. As soon as the company was acquired, the newly appointed director/CEO/President Rahul Thakkar (formerly at Boeing and worked in safety, how laughable, he continues to be named on patents and works from his lavish Loudoun county VA home but requires everyone else to RTO at least part-time) -- the self-proclaimed "face of Shrek" who "won an Oscar" for innovating what is perhaps the least creative thing, production-focused micromanagement software for DreamWorks in the 1990s - brought out the acquire-reduce katana to slice up non-Czech offices, previously acquired under other management, close offices in Asia, and bungle the sales team causing a net negative within the first 12 months. Within 18 months, the US office had imploded by 50%, with senior level leadership of a formerly independent R&D focused office among first to go, I among them. Now under BAE they are rebranding and smooshing the company together with a zombie acquisition from a previous cycle to create BAE OneArc. Presumably OneArc refers to the "sight of the sunrise over planet Earth when orbiting in space" which really captures the gaming and warsim subculture of the company, dontchathink?