Not a professional work environment - Member Of Technical Staff Everpure Employee Review

Wow - that sounds busted. I'm sorry to hear that's your experience because that's exactly opposite of what we'd hope for each other and the overall culture (and yes, nerf guns can be annoying, I actively discourage them in my area). As you know, we've been going through growing pains at Pure, so yes, we're going to make some mistakes, but that isn't an excuse for what's been your experience thus far. At Pure Storage, we strive to make this be a place where we hire really smart engineers, provide them an environment where they can make a big impact, and in doing so, enable them to grow and learn. We strive for Engineering to be a meritocracy and this does mean that sometimes someone with less experience may be valued as much as someone with more years of experience, but primarily we're looking at a person's contribution to the overall team and product. More times than not, experience enables people to have larger contributions (and avoid more dead ends), but not always. At Pure, we're tackling some incredibly complex problems and are not beholden to the typical approach of other storage vendors, hence it takes all sorts of engineers. On a more personal note, I've been an engineering manager at Pure for the past seven years and this feedback is disheartening. It doesn't sound like you've confidence to share this type of feedback directly with your manager (for example, it wouldn't be hard to get stand-ups to be more effective. Note: we don't mandate a one size fits all process across all teams, so one's experience may vary widely from team to team). I'd like to meet with you if possible to discuss your experience and get more details so we can fix this. Also, we are actively working on rolling out more manager training to help, but even without that, we shouldn't be this far off. Lastly, and I can't help but say this, but there's almost no good reason to ever reject an employee's vacation request. In all my time here, I've only once asked people to shift vacations to avoid an entire team being out, but that's it. If vacation requests are being rejected as a norm, then that's wrong and you should escalate (I'm happy to help you with that). Vacations are precious.