- All new features and decisions ultimately come down to how the CEO is feeling about it on that day. Work that was worked on for months is suddenly not good enough.
- Zero project management or process to take in new work or organize work so you'll be running around like a chicken without a head.
- Fully remote teams means organization and decision making from the bottom up is nearly impossible, and that you'll be working all the time due to the varying time zones around the world.
- The code base for almost all the software projects are a mess written by expert-beginners who started here as juniors and ended up staying because they weren't good enough to get a job elsewhere.
- Tools and technologies feel like you've stepped back in time, but don't waste your time trying to improve them because your list of features to implement grows longer every minute.
- You'll never have time or an opportunity to refactor or clean up the messes that are made by former developers because users don't care about your refactoring, only that the button is blue and aligned with the other buttons. Oh don't worry features customers actually want aren't important either.
- Work life balance does not exist because at any point you'll be pulled into yet-another high priority feature or issue in the middle of the night because the company runs "lean".
- A culture of "not invented here" syndrome where poorly maintained one-off scripts and tedious work is the norm instead of automation or using existing turn-key solutions because of unrealistic delivery dates due to poor project management.
- The company communications is a mess -- everything is locked down, and transparency is NOT rewarded, half the daily challenge is managing all the conversations you're a part of.
- So many other issues like offices closing down, zero vertical movement, shady things I can't even talk about, etc.
If you value your software career and passion for software - don't let the "benefits" sucker you in - it's the old bait and switch tactic. This place will suck the joy you had for software development right out of you.
