The applications are riddled with tech debt that developers are trying to fix but it's never "fast enough". Every person is scrounging for a few remaining points to "squeeze their project in". When the developers try to push the company forward, we are forced to end up reverting any progress that we made because either an ex-developer (now product) decides it doesn't meet their very specific specifications, and that it must be home grown.
During my time as a developer at Uptake I have been forced to on several occasions I've been forced to put my integrity as a developer aside to bend into the poor decisions of a person who is no longer supposed to be leading or guiding engineering.
Priorities change faster than I can fathom, leading to some very remarkable silliness happening, and side conversations and almost side deals with developers.
One person's way of "evolving the product/innovating" is by deprecating old crap code that they wrote. Because "if we don't innovate we will die" ... which the sentiment is true but I have a completely different view point about what innovation is.
HR complaints fall on deaf ears because some of the biggest offenders are protected by senior management due to past experience.
Overall - terrible code, any attempts to make it better are met with "it works so move on". Get out while you are still not employed by them.
At the time of this writing, they are in the process of reverting completely back to the "Canam Way" which is write whatever crap you can to get it working and hope that it doesn't break anything when you do it.
