Fired without warning - Senior Software Engineer uShip Employee Review

2.0
4 Aug 2018
Recommend
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Pros

* Good benefits * Fun extracurricular activities * Coworkers were mostly nice

Cons

* As a developer you don't really have a manager. Your "manager" will work on a different team and have a "real" job that doesn't involve managing people. As a result your manager won't really know you or your abilities or your day-to-day. * Seems to be oriented completely towards millenials who don't like to be told they're wrong, hence the "hands-off" management style. * May be fired without warning like I was. The reason given was that I hadn't checked in enough code over the past few weeks. When I pointed out that most of my code during that period was pair-programming, the guy firing me didn't care and said he expected "more" from his senior engineers. I was never given a warning or told I wasn't doing well, and I've never been fired from a development job for lack of performance during my entire 20+ year career. In fact I've generally been given large bonuses and even stock grants because I tend to excel at my job. * Focus on agile development to the detriment of actually getting stuff done. Every task I was assigned was a minor bug fix or feature that took 1 day or less to complete.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

• No clear or honest path for advancement despite multiple years of strong performance • Repeatedly told opportunities were coming, then given “interviews” that went nowhere • Advancement process feels performative rather than genuine • Constantly changing requirements made bonuses harder to achieve, even as a top performer • Poor communication and lack of transparency about company direction • Frequent layoffs created ongoing anxiety and instability • Benefits were reduced or removed over time, including DoorDash credits that were part of the original compensation package • Team culture heavily centered around alcohol-based social outings • I was explicitly told that attending these bar outings would improve my advancement opportunities, which felt exclusionary for employees who do not drink or are unable to attend The company had a DEI group, does not meaningfully address hiring, representation, or retention • Despite DEI initiatives, the company remained overwhelmingly white, with very little diversity across teams • DEI efforts focused more on social activities (e.g., group outings) than on structural change

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