Tango reviews

The sales team is generally the only team that gets to bask in the success of this company, despite the fact that the wheels are more or less held together by the sheer tenacity and excellence of the finance and supply teams who generally seem to be the only ones who know how the company actually functions. There is a heavy over-indexing of management within this company that leads to far too many meetings and way too much planning that gets in the way of making meaningful progress. This is only exacerbated by the fact that the company is now more or less 100% remote and there is a tendency resulting from this in some managers to insert themselves into and/or schedule multiple touch-points as a way to justify their salary and position - more on this later. On the development side, you have a CTO who does not appear to have any interest other than maintaining his position and salary. The company claims to utilize AGILE methodology but if you've ever experienced the worst of JIRA you should recognize that this basically means that you will be working through a grave-yard of bug tickets until something big HAS to be released and then you will be on-call and "sprinting" to the finish line. This problem primarily exists because the Sales team drives product development and innovation within the company and as a result, there is a constant "shiny object" syndrome happening. Finally, HR in this company is terrible. Unlimited PTO means you will never actually get to take meaningful PTO (unless you're in sales). Benefits, while once pretty decent, are continually eroded year-after year. You will never see a competitive salary increase after your initial hire unless it is somehow tied to some kind of title change (hence the over-indexing of managers).

* CTO is technically and managerially incompetent (see Globys reviews). * Lack of empowerment unless you count lip service. * Lack of innovation. * Top down management organization structure. * Zero career growth opportunities. * Zero accountability. * Zero processes for getting stuff done. * New tech stack is unfit for a SaaS platform. * Engineers have quit on management. Choice quotes from the engineering team: * On speaking up: "The nail that sticks out gets the hammer." * On politics: "For such a small place there sure is a lot of office politics." * On having more team collaboration: "I am going to carve out a slice of the project for myself and I suggest you do the same." * On addressing technical debt: "We are never going to address debt because the backlog will always contain higher priority items." * On testing: "I don't believe in testing." * On automation: "It's low priority." * On work assignment: "I am not doing what I was hired to do." * On general workflow: "It doesn't make any sense at all." * On bugs: "Its job security." * On CTO: "If you want him to get fired don't do any work." * On checking-in bad code: "I checked it in to see if anyone would catch it." * On team dysfunction: "It's a startup! It's suppose to be this dysfunctional!" Bottom line, Tango Card Engineering is a passive aggressive organization and I would not recommend it to anyone that values leadership, accountability, innovation and excellence.