Management lost their minds - now resulting in massive turnover - Principal Software Engineer HERE Technologies Employee Review

3.0
May 30, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits. Great work life-balance. Great technology (AWS Cloud --> Kubernetes). Used to have some really great, smart people but most are gone (see "cons" below)

Cons

Management's inability to prioritize plus their lack of trust in Engineering teams have lead to mounting technical debt that resulted in large unwieldy monoliths. Then they start complaining about why you're not delivering on time. Meantime they have 5 people working on 8 different projects concurrently - constantly switching on a daily basis and then ask why nothing is done. Even when asked for a priority list they'll tell you 20 things but 5 number one priorities! Now even long-term staff (15+ years) are leaving and entire teams are departing. All that pressure is resulting in a culture of blame - but when you have responsibility but no power - it becomes so dysfunctional.

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HERE Technologies Response
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Thank you for taking the time to give us your feedback and modeling our Be True core value. We care about all employees and the support they need. Regarding your feedback on the management priorities, we believe in transparency and have been working to provide support to our leaders to more effectively communicate back to their teams while providing the relevant context. We know it's not always perfect for a technology company in transformation - these are exciting times, but we are constantly working on how to better inform and support employees through these changes with the aim of simplifying our work.

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