Rapidly changing company not trending in the right direction - Staff Software Engineer Tackle.io Employee Review

The developer experience is beyond abysmal. Running and deploying anything is terrible. Monitoring and testing is barely a thing. I would find things that were broken for months in production. Pull requests could be very contentious and uncomfortable. If a customer wanted an unusual feature, leadership would force it to get built. Teams are tribal. Collaboration could be difficult, and in some situations, unfriendly. If a project didn’t go well, fingers were pointed. Team onboarding was mostly non-existent. New hires were expected to figure things it out without much documentation or support. Team culture didn’t encourage helping new hires. Very little effort made to introduce new hires to the actual product. The engineering culture really declined and things like “hackathons” were canceled. People quit contributing to lightning talks and knowledge guilds. No one saw the value anymore. A really complicated progression system was built out and never fully implemented. Performance reviews could take hours to complete. Many managers didn’t even bother doing them. Transparency is massively on decline and people do not trust the executive leadership. They kept saying we had years of runway over and over again. Layoffs were top down and it clearly wasn’t based on performance or talent. They got rid of a lot of superstars at the company and kept a lot of people who probably didn’t really fit anymore.