Cheap greedy leaders and lazy developers - Anonymous employee CDK Global Employee Review

2.0
Jun 22, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Location, wfh sometimes, good 401k, free gym membership in house, some managers kickass, free food/happy hour fairly often, opportunities to learn.

Cons

"Elite" leadership team is far from elite. Their idea of fueling innovation is cutting, cutting, cutting and keeping pay low as possible (but not for themselves of course). The competence and commitment of senior product directors ran off with with their strategic vision into the sunset and have been MIA ever since. Many "full stack" developers do the bare minimum only to get back to reddit for the remaining 7.5 hours of the day. Senior developers from the old empire have no intention of breaking old habits that plague the various fragmented systems held together by duct tape and bandaids.

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