HARMAN reviews

no training whatsoever. You will be thrown into a project that is quoted late, months behind, doesn't have the people on it, no requirements (I literally cannot say this enough), no one working on the requirements, if you try to get necessary materials to do requirements analysis yourself you will be stone walled, no engineering process, traceability, or software design, and if you ask about these things people will look at you like you grew a second head. Best of all, you get to be the fall guy for their bad decisions if everything goes south If you are considering this for your first job out of school just don't. you will learn less than nothing, go for a company that actually values software as an engineering discipline, look for CMMI or V model. also, there is a bad habit of people having a "let me do that for you" mentality instead of documenting, showing how to do something, or explaining for future reference. They will insist that they are implementing better processes but you might not get to take part in that on whatever they assign you and life is too short to be ripping your hair out over making one off consumer entertainment software that isn't even cutting edge.

Leadership vacuum at upper and middle-management levels as evidenced by extremely poor levels of employee engagement, pervasive apathy, no discipline to process, third-world employee performance management process, no bonus or salary compensation incentives for regular employees during times of record revenue and profit, little accountability at all levels, low levels of intra-group communication, low expectations everywhere, no real world work-life balance, career advancement very hit or miss, working hard is valued far more than working smart, extremely poor use of significant intellectual capital.