Bad project and bad management - Software Engineer Morningstar Employee Review

1.0
Jul 30, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good work life balance, nice people to work with. Good location. There are many training opportunities such as agile training.

Cons

The projects are old, monolithic systems that are hard to work with (business logic lives in big, thousands of line, stored procedures that no one understand, environment variables, connection strings, etc are hard coded everywhere, making the code unreleasable) Very little motivation and upward mobility (unless you are already a manager who is good at talking). Managers are micromanaging and rarely gives praises, only finding problems such as you missed a meeting, your refactoring effort produced some bugs, etc)

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Morningstar Response
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Thanks so much for your feedback. We've definitely built and acquired a great many products over 30+ years. No doubt about that! For many of the older products, our challenge is to reduce and retire complexity that's been introduced over time. I'm sure that's not always fun. Like most organizations our size, I'm sure there are great managers and some who have room for improvement. My goal is to bring consistency to our leadership and I've been skipping levels of management to talk to people like you to find out what is working well and what is not. You don't have to wait for me to find you though, because you can always come speak to me. I'd love to hear from you.

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