Avoid until Portland engineering management is restructured
Pros
The Portland development team is great. So good in fact, that I assume they're all looking for other jobs like me.
Cons
The managers that I've worked with seem unable to understand software development basics, and as such are ineffective leaders. Because of this lack of skill, a severe culture of blame has been established by management. For example, the SVP in Portland and HR both blame the CEO for promoting none of the very deserving development team, but all of the management team. One of the bigger goals of the past few years has been getting off the legacy system. The development team has to this point made great strides towards this goal, with zero input (or recognition) from management. Current plans to continue this effort were made by the development and product teams, again with no action from management apart from promoting themselves.
