Smarsh reviews

- Smarsh is a data governance product, over the years it has -acquired a lot of other companies and has turned itself into a big pile of mess - poorly maintained and architected code bases, tech debt is one thing but there is no effort to make things better from engineering point of view - it's run as an operation driven company and not a product/engineering company - You will see folks who have been there for >8 years with inflated titles of Principal Engineer & Delivery Engineer most of whom work just as a 2-3 YOE IC Engineer - code bases are messed up - engineers work 75% of their time working on incidents (the term incident is so lightly taken here) - they messed up so bad for every minor change there is an internal review committee of 2 senior folks and post which the actual customer has to approve the changes (it's hilarious) - there is literally no concept of work life balance, you will see people grinding 24,7 for all the wrong reasons doing menial tasks, you get paged/pinged at any time of the day, even on weekends (they give comp off but of course the line gets blurry)

Quality of the code is low that will make improving things almost impossible.