Pros
Before 2021:
Most of the people across all departments -- some teams had their struggles, but for the most part, an employee could have a voice without being called into a meeting with HR, or bullied by middle management, which included micromanagement, micro-aggressions and passive aggressive remarks in meetings, manipulation of team members -- putting them in competition with one another.
Appearances are everything for this company now. I've seen several coworkers go from being a valued member of the team to being the problematic outcast almost overnight because they questioned something their manager or lead didn't like.
There were rounds of layoffs without any explanation.
A few were put on performance improvement programs which was designed to either get them to quit, or become the subservient puppet that will spend twelve - fourteen hours a day where every mouse click and key typed is monitored and logged, while overloaded with tedious administrative work that is not automated (yet it could be, if one was given time and permission to do so) on top of the already bloated projects on their plates.
All this stated is merely a snippet of the big picture.
The old Q2 is dead and gone. I grieved it's loss well before it was my turn on the chopping block. This isn't a standard stereotypical "oh, the company got big, became public, so of course the culture changed".
This is bloated middle management mismanaging egregiously -- it's not necessary to repeat here what was one of the last straws for me, where an employee dropped off because racist commentary became the focus of the meeting and it was highly triggering, though not so much shocking as it was just outright disappointing.
For a while there, we had progress with DEI. I'm not sure what happened, but a big regression occurred and suddenly all of the jobs are being offshored and no one knows what the heck is going on, and it's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when they will be laid off/fired next.
Matt Flake is a good person, a good CEO, it's just puzzling how things got to where they were (and clearly, still are, based on the latest reviews.)
Cons
I wish it were better for the employees that still work at Q2.
There were some really good people, the work itself was good, hard, challenging -- part of what made it so irresistible aside from great product and complex yet robust architecture was working with so many great minds to deliver a product that stood for the underdog -- the smaller credit unions and banks that had their members and clients interests held respectfully, and once upon a time, we all held respect for one another.
For lack of better words:
That just sucks. It still sucks to see this company is as bad off as it is today. Q2 as a family that fell the f* apart.
