Indifference at all levels - Software Engineer Hitachi Vantara Employee Review

1.0
May 2, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Vacation is unlimited, but recently some teams started to mandate management approvals to get it, previously you would submit the request ahead of time and all set to go. Company matches 6% of your 401K contributions vested immediately.

Cons

The culture of indifference at many levels - most managers do not see you as a person, but rather as a replaceable resource, Most products are legacy ones with a lot of questionable code, a lot of time you will patch issues instead of developing a new code base. Many managers are grown from within and are skilled developers without soft skills to manage people, many old-guard people managers just care about their own growth and will throw you under a bus to step up. Engineering culture is very strange - managers cultivate backstabbing by requesting a regular anonymous feedback on other employees in 1-1's. You will be shuffled between projects on a quarterly basis instead of focusing on a specific area and deep dive into it.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

* Decent compensation plan * Remote work setting with low in-office commitment * Good team of IC's and middle managers with genuine commitment to teamwork and company goals

Cons

* Atrocious senior leadership, especially in Marketing, where chaos and a lack of strategy and direction were pervasive and worked to destroy motivation and morale across the team * Budgets were cut consistently YoY for the past several years with very little focus on driving actual pipeline and demand in lieu of an expensive brand awareness initiative which did nothing to drive demand * Very low team and company morale * High priced solution with no real product differentiation along with a lackluster product roadmap which is years behind competitors

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