Lack of leadership from upper management. Young development teams that are not mentored - Anonymous employee MasterControl Employee Review

2.0
Apr 1, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Very difficult to get fired. You can basically show up and do very little and the longer you stay, you’ll get promoted. But if you outshine, instead of being rewarded, you get punished for it.

Cons

Lack of strong leadership at upper management, no drive and direction. Leadership team has their own private agendas that don’t align with visions. Current technology is ColdFusion which holds the young development teams back from being innovative. The user experience of the software is horrible and unusable. Customers pay to be trained on how to use the applications. That’s right you read this correctly. Not a safe environment to work in. I could keep going but you get the jist.

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5.0
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Pros

Company is good and people are good . Great work life balance

Cons

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2.0
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Pros

Great people and culture. Solid benefits, Health insurance paid 100%.

Cons

Comp is ok. Promotions are almost impossible to get. Constant layoffs, maybe 5-7 times in the past 12 months? Engineering leadership is constantly switching priorities and lacks vision, transparency, and ownership. Long-standing traditions are now being canceled, likely to save money. Poor AI posture in engineering. Engineers are encouraged to spend ridiculous amounts on AI tokens, then the company does layoffs because it spent too much on AI.

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