Liaison International reviews

Organizational cons: - Executives will lie right in front of you in an all hands meeting with a smile, and not about the small stuff. Rails engineers were told they'd have work for years for clients, and about 6 months later they started migrating to a .NET project. Two very long tenured, good engineers were let go soon after we were told our jobs were safe - You will be asked to write a glassdoor review on day 1 while you're brand new, so of course the score is bloated and inaccurate albeit a tremendous bragging point at Liaison Engineering Cons: - Incredibly low interest in staying up to date, the project was on Rails 3.1.2 and Ruby 1.9.3 in mid 2018 - If you enjoy working with a manager then you can count on them being let go soon. Liaison simply doesn't like engineering managers who are employee friendly - slow deploy processes, every 2 weeks - slow growth on the engineering team, both financially and in title/role - LOTS of meetings, in an average week you could very well lose an entire day to meetings - At some point we rearranged our titles, leaving people with what appeared to be sneaky demotions

Going into this job, I knew that I would be working on the development team that did the technically unglamorous, sustaining "keep the lights on" type of work for this company. I didn't expect challenging technical problems or exciting new products. That said: -Our team was ludicrously understaffed, even during the busiest part of the year -Upper management still refused to pull resources from other teams to help us -The work was soul-crushingly boring. Technically easy, but requiring insane attention to detail. -This meant that any time a team member actually got good at the job, they got promoted to one of the new feature teams, leaving the most time-sensitive, business-critical work for the most junior employees -The product team, which used to be our main source of requirements, deadlines, documentation, etc, abruptly declared they didn't want anything more to do with our team (like everyone else, they preferred to concentrate on new features). So they threw the role over the wall to the account managers, who struggled to fill the gap. -In situations where we missed a deadline or encountered deep implementation challenges, we got reprimands from upper management instead of offers of more resources (or other assistance of any kind) -The stress made even the nice, smart people mentioned above (from the account managers to middle management) yell and throw tantrums. -Developers, testers and even project managers had no say in process or development practices. They made us do retrospectives, which were a joke because we weren't allowed to actually change anything. The company is agile in name only. -On any given day, 80% of my team was working remotely (lots of locals worked from home, and half the team was in NY or India full-time). The company used Skype, which had terrible video and audio quality. Not the best thing to listen to all day while sitting in an empty office.