Friendly colleagues hindered by unsupportive management culture
Pros
Non-Management People are good and friendly.
Cons
Management here is only interested in saving their own skin. Developers and QA are treated like disposable resources—whenever something goes wrong, they are the first ones to be blamed for management’s own incompetence. There is a constant blame game culture. One moment everything is “good,” but the second the CEO makes a negative comment, suddenly everyone starts pointing fingers instead of taking accountability. As a developer, don’t expect a clear role. You are expected to do everything—create your own tasks, write repro steps for QA, estimate timelines, and basically act as PM, QA, and developer all at once. Meanwhile, actual managers contribute very little beyond committing to completely unrealistic deadlines that no sane team can meet. Most developers are already burnt out, and it shows. There is zero regard for workload or sustainability. The CTO, instead of supporting the team, comes across as condescending. Talks a lot, tries hard to sound intelligent, but clearly lacks real understanding of the codebase when it actually matters. And work-life balance? Forget it. That concept does not exist here.
