Most discrimitive workplace I've experienced in my career
Pros
- At times competitive salary potential (cash only) compared to the market, particularly at the higher end, though instances of lowball offers are more often. - Some genuinely skilled and admirable colleagues in Engineering, though they often lack empowerment to drive positive change, which eventually led to their departures.
Cons
It's definitely NOT the best workplace as they may suggest. I'm sharing my experience as examples alongside with others' which I have gathered consents to share. So buckle up: # Leadership and Workplace Culture - Lack of diversity; senior roles almost exclusively held by white males, despite them talking about diversity and inclusivity in public. Not to mention the microaggresions toward non-Caucasian and non-male employees -- Example: One of the leadership team shared a tool to distinguish one's accent, and asked everyone what accent do they have - Non-Caucasian employees face dismissive or hostile treatment. -- Example: A senior engineer said B-word to a non-Caucasian female colleague without consequences, later receiving a promotion to a management role - Nepotism and favouritism. -- Example: Someone publicly gifted a superior a bottle of wine in the office, subsequently receiving favourable project budget allocation - Harassment incidents were ignored. -- Example: CEO once openly joked in an all-hands that he wanted to marry female employee due to her accurate guess at our business numbers - Blame culture, especially from leadership roles -- Example: A leader made a horrible business decision, but shifted blames to the engineers who helped them build it immediately # People (HR) Department - No effective anti-discrimination or anti-retaliation policies - Lacks meaningful inclusivity and neurodiversity training # Engineering and Tech Culture - Rigid and micromanaging, stifling innovation and feedback - Leadership lacks clear technical vision and dismisses employee input -- Example: An IC spent months building a ML pipeline closely with the business, only to be replaced by their skip's brilliant idea because he felt like it - On the career page is is said "Technology is a means to an end", but it really isn't at least here -- Example: During my onboarding, I asked a Principal Engineer about the entire user flow, only to be dismissed with "Why do you need to know about the business?" - Political power plays from leadership -- Example: A Head of bypassed communication conventions and escalated to my manager at a certain occasion. Even another manager noted that it wasn't inline with standard practice in the org, and it was pretty odd for the person to do so # Talent Retention - High turnover in the past couple quarters due to a toxic environment, ineffective HR practices, and discriminatory leadership
