Frustrating. They want Cheerleaders not employees. - Anonymous employee Jobber Employee Review

3.0
Jan 8, 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Free food Bus Passes program Inviting Office Space

Cons

Political - Hopefully you're friends first and employees second. Hope that the role you're hired in is the PERFECT FIT. HR (or people ops as they like to call themselves) said many times "We'll only move top performers" Which boils down to this. Hopefully your very good at what your hired for, so you can grow into a better role. If you're hoping they will work with you to find your strengths and play to them. They will not. Top performers even for lateral moves within the company. Expect feedback to fall on deaf ears. I spoke directly with my director when a coworker was moved into a new role as my boss. Indicated that I believed there would be issues, and sure enough there were. My direct boss wasn't even apart of the meeting where I was told I was no longer going to be a part of the team.

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Jobber Response
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Thank you for taking time to leave a review. You’ve raised some important points. We're currently working on bettering the process on how we communicate internal moves. Knowing that we’re going to keep on growing, we do want to make sure the process is as straightforward and supportive as possible for our team members. We’re also building a competency framework with the goal to further highlight the strengths for each of our roles. Again, thank you for taking time to leave a review.

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The culture in Engineering is turning really sour. I get the impression they're slowly trying to eliminate the People Manager role, which is "fine" until you realize that they have no interest in helping you grow and advance your career here. It's really sad to see, especially for those of us earlier in our careers who do want to move up and stick around long enough to see ourselves AND the business grow. They're trying to eliminate 1-1s under the guise of productivity and shipping out faster and getting managers more involved in dev work. And it does not look like the managers have much of a say. For the most part, you're seen as a replaceable code/feature monkey. Turnover is increasing, especially with those tenured, senior folks, and I don't think they care. Another issue I've ran into is the varying skill level of engineers. There are great engineers here. But, there are some engineers here who just entirely vibe code. And that behaviour is highly encouraged and seen as "impactful" in some teams. Well don't come crying when incidents have increased over the last 6 months then? To be fair, it is entirely team-dependent and some teams have a higher calibre, some lower.

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