Buried in Technical Debt, No Vision - Software Engineer Tally Employee Review

1.0
6 Jun 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Tally used to have a really great culture. Goofiness was encouraged, working there was fun and the people are top notch. Work/life balance was pretty good before layoffs. Everyone there is onboard with helping people be "less stressed and better off financially." I've never worked for a company where everyone had such a strong commitment to the company mission and it was honestly pretty powerful.

Cons

Tally has prioritized building out features as fast as possible for so long that the technical debt feels insurmountable. It feels like nothing is getting done now as we address it. Processes are completely broken if they even existed in the first place. Leadership has no clue how to fix this. They say a lot of words about fixing things but they seem to be empty promises. Leadership has no idea how to lead the company into the future. Zero vision. It seems like our marketing has strayed from us moving towards "complete financial automation" to pushing our CEO as a thought leader. It just shows there's not much substantive progress being made towards our ultimate goal. Diversity used to feel like a priority but a good deal of our gains there were eliminated when layoffs happened in May. I feel like this is another area of empty promises and a lack of empathy. Morale is pretty low following layoffs and I just wonder how Tally plans to bring that back. If I were looking for a job right now I would think long and hard about joining this company.

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Tally Response
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I appreciate you being so candid and taking the time to share your experience. If you’re open to it, I would love to have a conversation to follow up and put some action behind your concerns. - Joe Schiro, People Ops at Tally

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