I've had some atrocious experiences with bad managers and terrible company cultures. Anyone have similar experiences??
Upgrade is not an exception. It's CTO & SVP Oh my God!
I would say I've seen gullible employees who just immigrated into the USA paid 80% less than their market value. Yes, paid 40k instead of 180k. The CEO was so happy and bragging about his ability to find "loyal" people who believed in his mission. Usually to the folks it took about 12-24 months to realize what was going on (because they needed to adapt to the new life in USA and understand the H1B mobility issues), by which point they would leave but the big profit was already done lol. Crazy
Yup..
Any company which has a CEO like Jack Welch or admires Jack Welch is shit and that CEO and his yes men all deserve to be shown the door
Unifirst. Not only is this the company that the movie "a civil action" was based on, but it also felt like a cult meets "mad men". The wall paper was a sepia toned collage of photos of the founder. I had to watch eight hours of video on how amazing dear leader was. Then another four of anti union videos. Women were only found in certain roles/departments. Every administrator be assistant was blond with stiletto heels and a short skirt. It was common for women to get promoted based on who they dated. The company likes to punish people. They had an old as400 programmer who they wanted to retire early. So every week they would stick him in a room and have him hand stuff client invoices. Meanwhile they had a machine in the same room that was designed to do just that. He wasn't allowed to use it. I stuck it out for a year and then left
Hmm databricks isnt that bad. I might just be oblivious though. I do fit in pretty well.
I can't tell if this is a joke or not.
Citadel is proud of their blame culture. You hear people say "oh I can't do that, might get fired" all the time... Makes me sick.
You can make a killing if you're coming from the bay.. They're happy to meet and exceed ridiculous total comps from elsewhere. But they expect you in your seat 10-12 hours a day working your ass off and oncall permanently for the stuff you build. Not the stuff your team builds, that'd take too much time; just you.
Yeah I'm not surprised, and frankly, that should be your red flag warning sign. You'd be way more competent technically than your peers and probably your boss, too. The tech debt accrual here is like nothing I've ever seen before. And yea, they fire people all the time. Somewhat randomly I might add.
Thermo has a horrific IT culture. Used to be great but we got a new CIO and he's been running the organization into the ground. Gutted the old management team, replaced them with his worshipers, and restructured huge segments of the organization with zero attention to resources skill sets. Saw Unix guys and gals assigned as windows support and Dev. Microsoft resources assigned to the Oracle stack. Everyone is scared of getting fired for minor infractions. To many BS corporate acronyms. Decision-making no longer follows responsibility. Change control takes a week of paperwork and meetings for minor low risk changes. Month long Quarterly change freezes where not even critical fixes can be put in place. I have heard a change control manager literally say no we can't fix that until it breaks which caused a business critical system to go down and that was viewed by the management team as the right decision! Regular maintenance and upgrades have slowed to crawl increasing the risk to the business by a terrifying margin. An Architect group and Project Management team that dictates bad design and impossible dates without any input from the SMEs. Was a Senior engineer and not once did they ever include any Engineers in the planning and scheduling phase. Thankfully I found a development niche working for the business. I still get weekly calls from my old peers asking if I have heard of any opportunities they can use to get out. It's a damned shame because it was an incredible organization to work for at one time.
Yup, my advice is to try to get out as soon as possible and move on.
Nope
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