Little direction, low morale, bureacratic processes - Anonymous employee ProQuest Employee Review

3.0
Oct 6, 2013
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Some very smart people, trying to do some cool things

Cons

Office morale was very low. Existing staff were forced to work on unpleasant legacy code while cool new projects are outsourced to outsiders. Long meetings, little direction from management and no drive to create or protect an engineering culture or agile process. Bureaucracy has seeped in from the parent company driving morale down. Also attracting and retaining talent was very difficult because of low pay grades

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1.0
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Decent work life balance, great coworkers

Cons

Little room for advancement - 1 actual promotion and 2 “lateral” promotions in 10 years despite consistent exemplary, goal-exceeding performance and increased responsibilities. Ultimately my loyalty was rewarded by being informed that the following quarter there would be a surprise transfer to move me to another team in a specialist role that “was not open to discussion.” After weeks of trying to get answers as to the expectations and success metrics for this (alleged) new role, I was laid off as part of a “restructuring” - supposedly because I “lacked seniority” in the “new role” I’d been forced to take.

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