There is a crazy focus on AI with no plan. but the thing is, the executive team has no clue what they are doing, like no joke, one of the executives sent out an email about how to use AI more and the example they gave was using AI to help plan what food to cook at a party. how in the heck does this relate to work? not only this, but I was asked by several upper management if I was worried about when AI would take my job. because I guess they all believe that my role as a Data Engineer is no longer necessary.
on top of this, the leadership over the propriety built system is a mess, the legacy platform has huge issues with corrupting data, forcing the accounting team to take 2 weeks a month to manually correct the data before they send it to their carriers, but mistakes get through anyway making their partnered carriers mad.
The product team has no way to move forward because the built out system is too clunky and everything is getting harder to manage. you may be reading this not into tech, but trust me, your job will be affected negatively because of the system was built by the dev team, whom despite all the things I tried to tell them, deny that the system has problems. even though the company is literally opening themselves for a lawsuit .
The biggest kicker of all though is that none of this will be fixed because an executive owns the Dev team, like literally, they have a contracting company that hires the dev team and holds the code repositories. so if they don't like the direction the company is going, they can hold the companies entire small business infrastructure over the head of the CEO to get what they want.
last of all, the reason I left was because after working their for almost 2 years as the sole data engineer, building up infrastructure and helping departments get data using best practices, the dev team hired their own data engineer and had him give me a technical assessment, like a literal job interview, after two years of me showing the company all their problems (like how the executives said they didn't give refunds but I showed them that they did over 7 million dollars of refunds in the last couple of years). I quit the same day as that interview as it was apparent they did not value my contributions and I should find a company actually values what I do.
Its only a matter of time before one of the companies partnering carriers realizes what is going on and decides to no longer do business with them, so regardless of your line of work, I would steer clear of this business
but at a minimum, ask in the interview process about how well the team your hiring onto works with the dev team, and have them give examples about progress that's been made in the last 6 months. I'm sure there's nothing, because the dev team didn't do anything good for the business in the 2 years that I was there
