Fantastic Place to Work - Senior Software Engineer Prudential Employee Review

4.0
Apr 29, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Strong technical leadership, including CEO - Strong engineering peers - Excellent engineering practices - Challenging engineering problems - Great mission - Good pay - Ability to impact and influence company's direction in a specific area

Cons

- Starting to see more Prudential nonsense - Slowing down the pace of change, growing larger more difficult to coordinate across teams - Pay is good, but for now below top tech players, hitting company performance goals is critical for a pay to be competitive

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