Lacks Vision - Senior Software Developer S1 Employee Review

2.0
Feb 8, 2011
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Pros

The vacation time was exceptional. The work from home policy was acceptable. The casual environment was exceptional.

Cons

The SMT lacks a vision. Unfocused President: The president spends a majority of his time flying around the globe attempting to apologize for bad code rather than making his vast army of Vice Presidents do their jobs. In his efforts to keep current clients happy he is unable to create a vision for the company. He is unable to spend the time to determine how to plan to get the current companies off of their present platform on to a new platform. The customer that complains the loudest gets a production fix rather than made to upgrade. The production fix takes developers off of forward development - therefore - the investment in the new product is not being balanced. The Business Units and their leaders do not communicate with each other.

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2.0
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Pros

Company size, nice and knowledgeable front line employees, fairly reasonable work life balance

Cons

In the last few years, there have been some major changes in management, and not for the better. Employees are frequently pigeonholed and not allowed to train or learn new skills, but those in the "in crowd" are. If you do a job well, expect to be "pigeonholed" and not given the opportunity to move into a different area. Too much focus has been placed on hiring outsourced resources in order to reduce costs. Management in the last few years seems to really enjoy belittling employees and making them feel bad. Praise is rarely given, if at all. A lot of resources are being stretched very thin, but being held accountable when quality suffers. Pay raises have been mediocre the last few years (if at all). Management has also gotten very "top heavy" the last few years (how many VPs does the company need?), while worker bees are being laid off frequently.

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