Software division is managed poorly - Software Engineer Two Barrels Employee Review

We’re pretty proud of our comprehensive benefits, and we’re sorry you felt differently. Our health insurance is really affordable (free!) for the employee. You’re right that you can opt in to a more extensive coverage plan and that is an additional $55/month. That additional premium can be covered by our $100/month healthcare allowance. Additional opt-in coverages include hospital indemnity, short-term disability, etc. We know our PTO package is unique as we recognize that not everyone celebrates the same holidays, so we didn’t previously have set “company holidays.” We got a lot of feedback and listened, and this year implemented 4 company holidays—on top of existing PTO. We are always working on educating our employees on all their available benefits, especially as they continue to expand. Our software team has levels for promotion opportunities that are clearly defined. Within the first week of onboarding, every employee has an expectations conversation with their manager. That is followed by 3 talent alignment conversations a year, where a manager checks in on those expectations. Those conversations are 2-way streets for employees to bring up their concerns as well. We seek software managers with coding experience, rather than solely management experience, to better ensure those running software really understand software and can translate those ideas to leadership. Our teams are currently built around products, that includes a variety of departments such as: software, product, marketing, and frontend. We encourage everyone to work together as a team on a singular goal to make the product better. Everyone on the team is encouraged to speak up and bring their ideas to the table to help make the product better. You can be an engineer and give design feedback, or be a designer and bring up ideas for product changes. Your perception that software management is not communicating achievements accurately is concerning and something we’ll look into. Interesting idea to do wellness checks outside of your department – something for us to consider!