Smartsheet Software Developer reviews

It was an okay place about a year ago, but there have been so many poor top-down decisions made, which keep piling up to make working here a pretty bad experience. As a software engineer, I should feel comfortable putting across ideas, concerns and more, but at this point I really don't. It's very suffocating due to management style - note that I say management and not leadership, because the people above teams just impose without listening. What makes the whole experience worse is that when I talk to people above engineering manager level in skip-level catchups, it becomes too obvious that they don't understand the technical implications of their decisions.

I have had three different managers in less than a year, not only because of reorganisations, which is the first sign of unskilled management. My team, and I personally, have suffered the consequences of this bad management. While we find a new manager, the person that has temporarily been stepping in couldn't be more of a bully, eg. telling me that I'm to blame for decisions he took, even after I vouched for a different thing, or denying that a conversation took place just because there was nothing written down after it. To add to that, the levels of micromanagement are really high. My previous managers didn't do this so much, but right now I have to justify what I'm working on every half day, even if it's a one-line code change, and give status updates in writing every few hours. In this setting, it's nigh impossible to get anything done. The worst part is that you can't raise any of these things to HR or upper management, because they don't do anything about it.