Just Don't - Software Engineer Citadel Employee Review

1.0
Jun 11, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Food - Insurance - Facilities - Marketing

Cons

- CTO changes every 2 years and policies/ideas can be bi-polar if you look in the long run - Senior Mgmt does not represent middle-lower food chain to CEO well (upper food chain are in their own world, and no one cares to ask about front line workers) - Senior Tech leads has pre-conceived notion about tech stack. Cost/Effort estimates is overlooked - Tech stack has massive issues, always in fire-fighting mode, there is no design/tech lead per se (only name sake), more tactical efforts than strategic across to get to another day, week, month and boom you got bonus, rinse and repeat - Literally face a tribunal when issues happen - Forget abut work life/balance including on weekend - Heavily under resourced across teams They pay you above the market rate, but make you work at least 2X - No learning opportunity - Too much politics

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Cons

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