HERE Technologies reviews

Most of the smart and talented colleagues have left the company or are leaving soon. The highly paid but not proportionally talented or first jobers have a good reason to stay. Higher and middle management are terrible in the Automotive group. Director looks all the times at the bug curves or features count. Quantitative old mindset manager. He yells to fix bugs or build more features (depending on the phase of the project), middle managers care only about their golden careers and whip their people to please the top management. It feels like in the 80's. A bad company from the 80's. Promotions are political, who challenges the mid management gets punished, silos culture with kingdoms and incompetent line managers taking technical decisions and competing with each others (lots of duplicate and non-sense work). No real will to improve or become a modern, attractive company for smart talented people. Agile group is another silos ivory tower and there's now also a director of agile. Mostly they're using the Spotify labels maintaining the same structure... It's a very corrupted setup. Nothing is transparent and there are hundreds of meaningless KPIs, it's hard to understand if what you or your team is implementing is useful. Finally my salary was not competitive. I started in 2016, colleagues hired before me had significantly higher salaries. Management at all levels has the highest salary and benefits, huge gap with their direct reports. All the 5 offers I've got in a month of search (same city, similar role) were 20-50% higher. The HERE golden age is over (except for managers).

Frequent lay off's. Almost 4 to 6 times a year. Most people are too stressed out Its not a great place to work. There is an unlimited leave(DTO) but managers will not allow to take more than 2 weeks per year.