Incompetent Leadership and Politics Destroys Engineering Culture
Pros
Compensation is market rate, people are generally nice.
Cons
I recently quit as software engineer here because of the internal politics and messy structure. the company has good mission and talented engineers, but day-to-day is ruined by bad leadership decisions. Executives keep pushing for chaotic short term reorganizations just to look good. Instead of helping us deliver, management burdens teams with heavy security and risk bureaucracy that slows down everything, while expecting us to work at 200% capacity Promotion is also not merit-based. career growth depends on visibility and being in the department head's inner circle, not technical skill. If you are mid-career or converted contract staff, it's a steep uphill battle. Lately there is also constant fear of being pushed out through aggressive performance grading and mass PIPs used to cut headcount. When we give honest feedback about burnout, townhalls are heavily curated to ignore it. Supporting functions are completely hollowed out too. BMO, PMO, and Change Management are understaffed and act like message-passers who can't explain their own processes. Tech HR also gives zero strategic value or empathy. They dont protect workers or follow proper due process, they just act as a tool to execute management directives. The engineering talent here is real but until incoming leadership rewards actual capability instead of favoritism, the mass exodus will continue.
