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Too much politics and poor leadership - Software Engineering Manager Discovery, Inc. Employee Review

1.0
23 Jan 2021
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Pros

- Interesting industry (online streaming). - Potentially amazing project like Discovery+. - Some truly amazing engineering talent still hiding in the company. - Good salary (comes with a a lot of cons).

Cons

- Poor leadership allowing for in-fighting, politics, games, talking a lot not doing much. - Deadlines are decided before the product team knows the requirement, all being dropped on the engineering team to deliver. - Massive focus on quantity over quality in many aspects and areas. - Poor and ultra-complicated app architecture across all platforms. - No support for technology and engineering from high-level managers. - Lack of structure within the organisation. - No clarity, misinformation, poor communication in every direction - A blame culture based on bringing people down, rather than growth. - Majority of technology is decided above and just dropped on teams. - Definitely not agile! Place where mid-management wants to be involved, but everybody is scared to make any decisions. - I see a decline in all areas within the last half-year.

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5.0
4 Feb 2023
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Pros

Generous attendance policy, Generous PTO, company dedicated to diversity.

Cons

Pay is lower as company includes all benefits into compensation. HR is terrible, but that is always the case. Interview process is always dragged out and never transparent

4.0
23 Apr 2026
Recommend
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Pros

It was nice to work there.

Cons

It was sometimes not nice to work there.

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