Chaotic and Catty - UX Designer NerdWallet Employee Review

- Exhausting politics in middle management - Unstructured long term strategy - Siloed teams helmed by non-technical managers - Callous pursuit of profit over customer focused solutions and experiences - Short term outlook from managers, quarterly at most, with equally short term goals of chasing metrics to drive revenue, results in high pressure environment, incredibly unsupportive, constant uninformed criticism - Yearly layoffs and restructuring - Poor communication from senior leadership - Reduction in costs and prioritizing efficiency has reduced benefits and morale budgets, lame culture when fully remote especially with closures of offices, reduced onsites, and no team outings