Poor leadership - Software Development Engineer InterSystems Employee Review

1.0
Oct 1, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Intelligent and smart colleagues, interesting projects, private offices, good compensation

Cons

- Extremely poor leadership at top level - Old-boys-club politics - Extremely dubious practice of depending on PI tests for recruitment - Extremely resistant to upgrade systems/technologies to deliver quality products by todays standards - Dress codes [oh fun!] - Lack of gender and racial diversity - Fun way of doing projects without requirements until something shapes up - Way too many people in middle management layer, acting important and doing nothing because they wrote a piece of software 10 yrs ago, which only they have the know-how now and is irreplaceable because they say so!

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