Toxic middle management ruining company's culture and growth - Software Engineer CardFlight Employee Review

Great culture and great people

None that I can think of

CardFlight is a great place to grow your career. There are a lot of interesting problems to solve and the company does a fantastic job of supporting professional development -especially for fresh grads and mid-level folks growing their "senior" wings. It's very much a place where you can choose your own level of involvement and stake your claim as long as you can back it up with good performance. Comp and benefits are good too. The annual work trips are definitely a perk. Co-workers are friendly and professional.

For more seasoned folks, CardFlight can be challenging. Things move really slow, so if you are here to chase that bag 💰, CardFlight will test your patience. Unfortunately, CardFlight is not immune to office politics. So there's no shortage of sharp elbows, sycophants and back-stabbers. If you are good at this game, you can thrive in leadership. Engineering vision and leadership is lacking. There's a lot of hand wringing and over-thinking and no action. CTO seems more interested in grooming people than actual technology. Management tends to weed out high-performers. So the collective average of engineers is pretty low in terms of skill, experience and proactiveness. I wondered about this when I started two years ago but now it makes sense.