Rocket Software Developer Senior reviews

Rocket is attempting to improve its image by cheerleading and ‘requesting’ employees provide testimonials on social media. Once you get past this false front, reality hits. For proof, review the company’s open positions. At this time, 2/3s of the openings are in India. Rumors have it the dev teams in Russia, Minsk, and China will soon have their positions heading to India. This is not a negative statement about the workers in India, the point is the erosion of knowledge which will take years to recover. Current customers should ask themselves if they can wait for these years of retooling? The current leadership views a software company as a fast food restaurant… you can replace anyone at any time and not lose any functionality. The company has some growth, but all off shore. The leaders think it helps morale of those left to shout about growth in other countries and as you see more and more empty seats in the office you are working in (or the US office is closed down). Review Linkedin to see those who have left the company and the quality of the talent lost. A number of those remaining are polishing resumes and talking with recruiters. Based on the past 4 years, staff is waiting for the annual open position freeze in US and layoffs which happened in October or November. Of course you can say ‘we are hiring’ but these seem to be all back-fill positions. One of the biggest jokes in the company is the boast on the company’s career site about one of the best things working here is the sponsored cover band? Some interns were hired on this year, but they should ask what happened to the interns from the recent past years. The employees see the middle managers only working to keep their jobs and unwilling to be honest with those who they report to. Cannot blame them, we all need jobs, but any surprise as to why there is nearly no morale left?

Then Rocket shifted its strategy and decided to attempt to combine all of their resources into "Centers of Excellence". This was a major re-organization. They decided not to renew the lease on our offices, making us all remote employees. At the same time they began openly saying that they would no longer hire remote employees, and that they wanted all of their employees centralized into the "Centers of Excellence", where possible. Next, our manager retired and Rocket at first assigned a salesman as our manager, and then eventually a remote manager from the HQ in Mass. That manager then retired in a mass exodus as Rocket incentivized more experienced, and highly paid, engineers and employees to retire from the company. Next, Rocket took away the projects which we had built and maintained for 20 years from the founding engineers and gave them to engineers in China, assigning the founding engineers to other maintenance tasks. Rocket is moving as much of their development to India, Russia and China as possible. They have cut their USA overhead, resulting in a large reduction in experienced engineers and managers in the US. It appears that they are attempting to maximize their software maintenance revenues by reducing (expensive) US engineers and replacing them with sub-standard 3rd world engineers. I expect a drop in quality will result, but that management is seeking to exit before this becomes too apparent. It looks like a short term exit strategy. I quit once I became aware that Rocket management's strategy was to outsource as much as possible of their engineering to the 3rd world, regardless of how profitable the individual units were and the cost to the engineers who had faithfully worked for Rocket. Rocket is a multinational corporation, they are not an "American" company. If anything, they are un-American.