Pros
Very Competitive Pay. Awesome benefits and bonuses. Company as a whole is very welcoming and interesting in terms of technologies.
Cons
As mentioned in the Pros company has awesome technologies to work with and fun events, but I unfortunately got stuck with a very bad team (Autonomous platform team). I was sold on a welcoming and helpful culture but when I got onboared to the team, got the complete opposite. Team members are really difficult to talk to, always get enraged when someone asks questions or for a further explanation on a topic briefly covered. Also was told I'd be working in scrum and the team does not follow any T-Mobile processes everything is done on the go very adhoc style. Deadlines are set on a best case scenario basis by the principle architect with no bandwidth or requesting feedback from the developer that will actually be doing the work. When concerns are raised as to why a deadline seems improbable Principal Engineer and scrum master shut the person down and set the deadline to what they like. And sure enough deadlines keep getting pushed and team ends up looking bad constantly because of this. Principal Engineer is always in "meetings" and comes onboard in the middle of project implementations to add more work to do without revising the deadlines. Always assumes everything additional is easy and fast to do which is why he has explained that he has no problem adding more requirements during a sprint without deadline revision, even though 90% of the time someone else ends up doing the work as he is always "busy". We have no product owner so the principal engineer and senior engineers give us the requirements which is a very big issue, requirements are always verbal and we constantly have to meet with the leads/seniors to verify what is being done is what they wanted and they are always "busy". Most of the team is overloaded to the point where working overtime and weekends is the norm and it's mostly due to the agressive deadlines set. Since we are working remotely we have a webex channel open all day from 9am-7pm that we are expected to be on "for anyone needing help", which is very irritating and difficult to do my work with when there are people screaming on the webex. I hate working here, and I just got hired July of 2020 only reason I have stuck around is because of the pay and benefits as they are actually really good compared to what I had previously. Most of my coworkers hate it here too and over half of them are contractors so they are afraid to speak up at all. Every meeting set seems to be taken as an opportunity for the principal or senior engineers to go down a 3 hour rabbit hole of what is wrong with the current architecture being built or something related.
