Bullies, Babysitters and Fairy God Mother - Senior Developer Gallup Employee Review

1.0
Jun 6, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Nice campus, Nice office space, Good Cafeteria and meeting rooms, equipment

Cons

I witnessed many unusual things on the software side that raises anyone's eyebrows. Since the very start I used to see at least few leads inside their office throwing fits, slamming desks, angry and cursing at things going down or someone on the chat. It seemed also very usual for people who have been there long to become enraged in meetings or in one on one discussion from time to time if someone didn't meet deadlines or if someone questioned or if the team or themselves got bad rating. Email shaming others while only complementing those who recorded ridiculous after hours and being passive aggressive with someone that didn't was normal and picked by aspiring developers that followed along. These were the Bullies and there were bigger Bullies that backed them all the time and as it turned out they were even more masterful at these kind of behavior. There could be an argument over which leadership was best at it but GAR and GCP leaderships can be easily voted as taking the top spots. 90 percent of what they call go-tos that a developer reported to were Women. (Not judging, just plain observation to explain the story here) but I never saw men lasting longer in those positions or may be most were not seen fit for being go-tos as Gallup had opinionated classification as which sex/strength/horoscope fits a particular role. They appeared very nice but also were so ignorant about anything technical it made you question how they became a technical manager. If you talked about your problems related to your everyday technical work everything would go over their head and you still got a smile at the end as if trying to mean "oh you are so cute". It also turned out they only acted 100 percent on what the bullies told them. eg. Not allowing to take time off etc and other dirty things that bullies couldn't handle it smoothly and required softer way to say tougher things. Then there's Fairy God mother whom everyone appeared scared. I also came to know much later that there was also family ties among some of them, some were very close, others just close relatives. Anytime it came to God Mother's ears that any sort of deadline is missed, there would be chains of email back and forth explaining why without God mother even asking anything. Most of the deadlines were for SAME APPLICATION WRITTEN OVER AND OVER AGAIN. The worst you are treated is when you leave the company. You are asked to leave immediately pay checks cut. Even if you happened to see them outside later they are still bitter about it. They seem to forget that life is short and it's a small world and however you treated anyone saying a good bye will be remembered by all forever. Bottom line, software side felt like a mental hospital where one can easily loose their sanity.

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