Ada Reviews

Surprising amount of politics to navigate for a 100 person company. Decision making is top-down with only a handful of people having the power to influence. When teams raise flags or provide feedback around timelines, product quality, lacking resources, and technical debt, it goes mostly ignored. No consistency across the company when it comes to career growth. Many deserving employees (often BIPOC) fight a long time for a backwards-facing promotion while others are promoted based on "potential". I can't begin to express how much this hurts people and erodes trust. There’s been a mass exodus of software engineers, especially at the senior level (post layoffs). It looks like they are trying to backfill these roles on LinkedIn. If you're applying, think about asking questions to get a better idea of the situation: - what does career growth look like for my role? what is the process for evaluating employees for a raise? a promotion? - who will I be reporting into? how many other direct reports do they have? - what kind of training do you provide to management/leadership?

Claims diversity but really are not. Management is all white with a few female white leaders. Check LinkedIn you will see. Also, people who do get promoted to managerial positions tend to be on the lighter skin tone spectrum. People get fake promotions where they get a new title but no more pay. Non-competitive salaries. Acts poor but also blows money on useless things. Management acts friendly and caring but really they just putting a bandaid on their failures with duct tape. They eat more than they can handle which is what led to the 2020 layoffs during the pandemic which was NOT due to financial difficulties. they were fine they have money, they just want to save more money to grow faster later. Literally a month after the layoffs they started hiring for the same positions. Why? Because you don't need to promote, give them raises, etc. Literally teams would be destroyed overnight. "Good morning, actually that team doesn't exist. y'all go in different departments now thanks bye" BUT some people jump 3 levels in half a year. I guess if you play politics right you have a chance. Work-life balance is the funniest one. Yes technically "you can come in whenever you want as long as you do your work" and "you can work from home if you need" but don't do it because really you look lazy if you do.