A bad engineering organization, a nice place to do nothing and get paid. - Senior Software Engineer Digital Innovation Group Providence Employee Review

2.0
31 Jul 2017
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Pros

People are nice generally and you can show up at 930, leave at 430 or 5 and no one seems to care. If you just want a job that you show up to, do whatever you're told to regardless of if its a good decision, get paid and go home then this is a great place to work.

Cons

WFH was revoked without notice or cause for entire team. Management is focused around pretty graphs in jira over delivering quality software. Employee standards are arbitrary and enforced wildly differently depending on the manager. Claim to be agile, but are really just waterfall without the ability to commit to long term plans. Extremely dysfunctional inter team communication. RCA meetings are aggressive and used as tools for punishing employees rather than to resolve actual meaningful issues. Software is barely used by customers, managers or leadership. Its not unusual to have the product owner of a product lecture at length about features which are no longer in existence, because they haven't run the software in two months. Many internal "norms" which are codified in a norms sheet. These are used to encourage people to "have backbone" or "have fun" or "crave constructive conflict". In reality these are used as a means to bludgeon employees via reviews - either by not following them, following them too much, or frequently one followed immediately by the other. The biggest one: this is not a startup. Its the software arm of a behemoth healthcare organization which does not understand engineering in any way. Incentives from top to bottom are focused on appeasing the bureaucracy rather than solving problems. They will obscure this fact by talking about agile, drive to go further, customer obsession etc... And I think there's a genuine desire for that to be true. It is not.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

coworkers pay supporting people in community They post the same job in multiple locations because they are open to having that role exist in different locations in many cases (note the pay is also based on where as well though) Info for those reading reviews to get a picture: I'm United States, but India reviews should really be separate feedback entirely, paid less and fed daily (read location: Hyderabad).

Cons

My last management was completely toxic Had health issues and a valid claim that was ignored, only pressured Was pushed out by my management when they found out my salary Mgmt requested to submit feedback for improvement, then retaliated Since HR was outsourced and trying to protect the company from further lawsuits (I was not one but contemplated due to validity) of absolutely no help and honestly, completely inappropriate. You will be repeatedly asked to provide feedback, but it will be killed with a 1 on 1. If I had laid down and taken the angry repercussions of their poor process implementation, and their complete lack of accountability, I would still be there - I just would have transferred to another manager. Some managers and teams are more toxic than others, but favoritism and bullying are allowed and seen Overworked and under-represented but was great for several years.

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