Spectrum reviews

Charter is already starting to claw back on WFH. we only were allowed 2 days WFH, but they've updated it for 2022 to be 3 days "in office". take a sick day, PTO, or holiday? Now your WFH less that week or none. We also have to track every WFH day in our time tracking software and they are validating that with monitoring where you are logging into the work network. There is no trust here and they are treating us like children for a benefit that was already worse than most of the major competition in the area. Office culture is very vanilla, this is probably not a job where you are going to make a lot of friends and grow your social network outside of work. Lots of "not my problem", you'll need to complain loudly or find "your person" on key teams to get any blockers resolved. There are definitely some office politics at play, and recent re-orgs haven't all been handled very well. Some groups have leaders that are very obviously trying to build their empire. This is probably unavoidable at any large corporate company though. I would like to see more encouragement to give back to the open source community.

* Can be a very tough environment to work. * There is a LOT (a LOT) of turnover - not in just one area but in multiple areas. People leave, take their knowledge with them and go find better opportunity elsewhere. * Lack of good onboarding. * Lack of clear communication. * Some bosses are toxic and try to manage via negative comments and try to embarrass you in meetings with your colleagues. * Lot of reorganizations. People get moved around like pieces on a checker board. (This is bad if you finally find a good manager...you'll eventually get moved). * Need more true Agile development. "Agile-Fall" is their term for trying to mix the two methodologies together. That won't work. People who don't know Agile are going to be really confused. * The company and most/if not all departments are against working remotely. Some departments have a hybrid schedule but the days you work in office is CLOSELY monitored. close to being Micromanaged. If you want the freedom with your schedule - this company is not for you. If you have days planned to have the roof fixed -for example, you have to switch your work from home day to be the day they fix the roof....or take that day off. Doesn't sound bad but each day you work from the office, it is monitored. * Company needs to figure out how to keep people at the company and decrease the turnover. when there is constant turnover, it is hard to keep a team together with good dynamics. It is constantly changing when people keep leaving.