Pythian Reviews

Some of the staff are simply incompetent. They survive by leeching off their peers, and management is too detached to notice or deal with this effectively. Management consistently picks the wrong solution, sometimes even for problems that don't exist. Similarly, management seems to have no coherent strategy for which features to pursue -- instead we pursue all of them, poorly. This damages the reputation of the team, which is incredibly demotivating. Projects are regularly dropped at the 80% mark because a new priority has risen to the top -- typically, a political priority. Management seems to be most concerned with ingratiating themselves with their peers than the performance of the team, or delivering the best solutions possible.

very hierarchical structure, with little possibility for advancement into management unless you are in "the club". marketing team and HR push a vision of pythian that is almost cult-like and comes off as very naive and fake. senior management team is incredibly closed off and clearly not comfortable interacting with regular workers. the environment will be familiar to anyone who's done military service.