The benefits weren't worth my mental and physical health. - Software Engineer divvyDOSE Employee Review

1.0
21 Aug 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great health insurance, competitive pay, flexible hours, unlimited WFH (although this wasn't documented, and some engineers were told they worked from home "too much").

Cons

I never felt like there were many opportunities to learn. Morale was very low due to engineers constantly hearing jabs about how they're "not getting enough done", how they're "never at their desks", and how "they can't make their sprint commitments." When a scrum master was brought in to help streamline sprint processes, leadership actively and loudly complained about the changes. Requests for anonymous feedback channels were turned down. Engineers were effectively expected to tell the CTO in person if they had problems with him, the company, or the culture. "D&I" was constantly touted as one of the number one priorities of leadership when it came to hiring and building an engineering culture, however we were never provided the actual ways leadership made D&I a priority. Team members were met with a lot of defensiveness when we tried to ask about concrete D&I efforts. Communication was difficult, and engineers often had issues feeling heard (Example: When an engineer asked how late they should expect to be logged on at night for their on call rotation, the conversation immediately steered toward "being a team player," with no actual clarification of on-call expectations.) I ended up leaving due to stress related health concerns that forced me to go to the doctor multiple times.

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divvyDOSE Response
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Thanks for taking the time to provide a review. We couldn’t agree more that we have incredibly talented employees across the company and endless amounts of really hard and challenging work to do. We do our best to drive with transparency (both during the interview process and post hire) that we have a huge task to accomplish that by no means would be described as easy. There isn’t a team in the company that hasn’t put in long hours to get the job done. Knowing that the hard work directly impacts the health of our customers is why employees tell us that they dig deep. We strive to make the company a great place to work for all people. Feedback is one of the ways in which we can do that. We provide a number of opportunities throughout the year to allow employees across the company to bring up concerns and provide anonymous feedback, including an anonymous feedback form and all-company instant communication tools that people can use anytime should they feel that there is urgency in delivering the message. We wish you all the best.

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