Short-sighted management - Software Engineer REI Systems Employee Review

2.0
Aug 1, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The company helps get h1b and green card, mostly for relatives. Good

Cons

- old building, boring cubicles, lots of broken furniture around the building. - poor compensation. In addition to low salaries, they don't have any bonuses. You get some stocks but it will bring you up to 5k within 5 years. - instead of raising salaries or paying for overtime work or giving bonuses they hired a motivation specialist that keeps posting motivating posters around the building. - one good thing they had - 40 hours per year for professional development - cancelled. - poor medical insurance. With their HSA every visit to ER you pay copay 700. Plus deductible. - poor 401k plan, they match only half of your contributions. And vesting for those is enormous 6 years. - no hiring bonus. - no initial stock bonus. - poor sick leave policy, you just have 3 days per year. - they have snacks vending machines but you won't like those prices. - every team has more managers than actual developers. PM, RM, Scrum Master, Motivation specialist, BA - and you'll need a meeting with every of these to keep them up to date. - very hard to grow professionally, especially for women.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

There is no respect of your personal time. Some dev/delivery Managers have no engineering background except of a degree and they cannot offer solutions. Hence, the dependency on team is so high for every little thing. Folks higher up in the chain engage in activities that violate code of conduct and ethics. Work spouse are common place here. Some people are home grown and in leadership positions and do not know how to handle crisis, and large programs. Some leaders get to move around easily when they cannot handle work complexity, and pressure and due to this genuine folks have to suffer (in short rules bend behind scenes) (open bias). Leadership will stand for their favorites [bias] and save them even after failing to deliver and innumerable customer escalations. Few architects shout and believe they know it all.

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