Card@Once is a mess - Senior DevOps Engineer CPI Card Group Employee Review

Where to begin? The C@O technical architecture is a mess. It's piecemeal and hard to wrap your head around because of how much turnover has taken place. Consequently, there's a ton of technical debt that never gets addressed. What needs to happen is a complete rewrite of their system. I was there for a year-- it was supposed to be my job to plan out a cloud migration which never took place because of the mess. Culture: Middle management leans pretty heavily right-wing. The new director wasn't very visible and didn't make much of an impact during my time there. Management made a lot of "COVID Conspiracy" jokes, which I found completely inappropriate and offensive. My direct supervisor was pretty overbearing. When I turned in my notice, I brought these issues up with the CTO. She listened, but then I felt chastised by her when she said I shouldn't have gone over my bosses' heads and brought the feedback to her. Guess what? I didn't feel comfortable bringing the feedback to my direct supervisor, which is why I brought the feedback to the person I _did_ feel most comfortable with. The company always felt like they were in fire-fighting mode, which meant that a lot was done manually, rather than actively seeking out opportunities to automate. I didn't ever feel like there was really a way to contribute in that fashion.