- Extreme resistance to change. Engineers want things to change, but nobody does anything to make it happen. It's extremely hard to get anything done here. The systems are so bogged down in debt that making even small changes is like pulling teeth.
- Engineers, architects, and managers talk things to death without ever making progress. When there is a new problem to solve, people will get together and make plan after plan after plan but never execute them. LiveRamp had a goal to start building REST APIs around services, and in the year I was there, they built one. One. It's really not that hard, but they were worried about getting it 100% perfect, so instead they built standards about APIs, but no APIs.
- Everyone here is convinced that their technical problems are special because they're working with terabytes of data. In the grand scheme of big data, terabytes really are not anything to worry about, but engineers and managers are convinced that they can't use the same tools that other much larger companies are using because it won't work at LiveRamp scale, which is just silly.
-No consequences, no serious performance review. That may sound like the dream, but if you're the type of person who wants to push themselves, learn, build cool stuff, and generally get things done, then this is a serious issue.
- No mentorship and a lack of experienced people. As an engineer with 4-5 years of experience, you're a very senior engineer here. I tried the entire time here to find people to mentor me and give me advice, and there was no one.
