Trimble Senior Software Developer reviews

- there is literally no way to get promoted from senior software engineer level N to level N+1 - much of the ip is bought from external companies, only the most critical employees from those purchases are kept on staff, and the on staff engineers get stuck making an enterprise grade product - they like to offshore, hire interns, and contractors, and then under pay their software engineers - we are treated like commodities - career opportunities consist of lateral moves between departments or moves from engineering into people management - in the software engineering side, many times there is a rush to ship features, many bugs are shipped, people to do testing are scarce, shortcuts are taken, and hot fixes happen often - no department I've worked with follows an agile process, think more scrum-a-fall

Agile SDLC is underdevelopment and a bit painful, seems like the business struggles understanding it's customer, business seems unwilling to sell directly to it's customers and relies a lot on it's re-sellers, not a lot of attention to detail is paid to SOLID principles, code quality, or maintainability of code