The IT Dept at this company is a haphazard patchwork of ancient technologies, driven by poor methodologies and corrupted by the self-interests of entrenched toxic people. They wear a façade of a modern technology company but are anything but. Efforts to pull them out of the change-resistant swamp are a never-ending exercise in futility that will leave you frustrated and feeling dumber for the effort. I’ve never seen so many Tech people suffering from burn-out that manage to just keep plodding on failure after failure in endless projects that wouldn’t know what the letters SDLC meant if you held 6 hour training seminars on it.
As an IT professional you will NOT further your career or skills here. You will not find pride in your work. Your passion and enthusiasm will be used against you. You will have your good ideas and designs stolen and given others as projects to ruin. Your attempts to ferret out actual software requirements will be met with blank stares. Your attempts to use Best Practices will be ignored in favor of a “just get it done” attitude.
If you are a Junior level, go somewhere else so you won’t have to unlearn the bad habits and poor techniques you will learn here. If you are Senior level and looking for someplace to crawl off and die in your career, this might be the place for you...
