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My first job as a software engineer, and it was a miserable one. I was a coding bootcamp graduate, so set up well with the foundations but wildly inexperienced. I guess they thought I was a bargain hire, not knowing bootcamp coders are longer-term investment projects. In short, I was set up to fail. -I was thrown in the deep end and only given token efforts at support. -No mentoring of any kind, or even a codified onboarding process beyond the most basic of steps -Complete garbage Confluence wiki that’s next to useless -Was told I needed to speak up and ask more questions, then reprimanded for asking too many questions. -Complete misuse of Agile practices, which had minimal effect on the experienced coders, but for me only served to beat me down further and reinforce a characterization of incompetence. -So many requests for help went unanswered that ChatGPT actually became my best coding resource -My work was routinely condemned for being slow and error prone—which it was, as I had 32 weeks of programming experience before starting—but was never given any kind of actionable feedback to improve or quantifiable metrics to reach -Company is east coast, I’m west coast; I was promised that eventually morning meetings would be moved later to accommodate this difference which exacerbated mental health issues; I had to actually file formal ADA requests to get anything done, and even then attempts were made to push things back. And this is what I can pull off the top of my head without consulting notes I took during my time there.

- Pay is not competitive - Little to no growth opportunities if you aren't in a main office. - Recently removed full work from home as an option, hybrid only. Will probably remove work from home entirely in the next few years, but this is just my hunch, cannot verify. - With a company this large there are always going to be bad managers as well, some of the worst I've ever worked for are here as well, there are some clique groups that don't care about their employees, take credit for their successes, and only promote themselves. - The company was 10 times better 10 years ago, a lot of small incremental changes have really degraded the work environment and employee experience.