Technology Management Is Severely Broken - Software Engineer Realtor.com Employee Review

1.0
Aug 3, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Move used to have many opportunities for web and software developers to learn new and emerging technologies, especially in the Microsoft realm, and on a prominent high-traffic website environment. It may still in specific favored groups.

Cons

CIO promises a "quality first" philosophy, but leads an environment that favors quick blue-sky promises and brittle low-quality code over experienced engineering that produces quality designs and systems. The company's technology "replatforming" of 2009-2010 was performed by an engineering team completely new to the company's websites and needs, completely shut out all engineers who did know the existing systems and products. The result is a set of severely over-complex, expensive, very difficult to maintain systems that don't satisfy anyone's needs without a lot of frustrating hacking, but which management continues to advertise as the agile new platform. Interoffice politics and management's refusal to recognize and address these problems continue to demoralize the working environment for many engineers, especially many loyal long-timers (some of whom have been with Move for 10-15 years) in the Westlake Village office, many of whom have left Move during 2010-2011. What remains is a terrible demoralizing working environment for engineers in the Westlake Village office, and disorganized chaos in the others.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

Great pay and opportunity for advancement if you can get on the right projects that will succeed. For the most part I have the tech I need to do my job and my coworkers are really smart capable people who I learn from every day. I feel challenged in my work and that makes me feel engaged and interested in the problems I solve daily. Flexible vacation time and great benefits.

Cons

It can be incredibly chaotic at times, bordering on toxic. People are on edge and passing blame around like a hot potato. Hierarchy, power plays, and territorial politics create land mines for the unsuspecting on any given project— depending on your team or organization you’ll need to tread lightly to survive. They only hire in Austin right now, so any open roles seem to take a long time to fill, but the work still piles on.

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