Pros
Work is diverse and interesting and platform, engineering and others are not overly siloed. There is good cooperation with other teams. Immediate managers cared about staff and attempted to give the why and focused progress towards goals while trying to address fundamental and historical technical issues. Location in downtown Bellevue makes it accessible.
Cons
Unfortunately upper management is very broken in the company. 6 months ago they brought in new upper management that is even more cutthroat than what we had before. Borderline sociopathic who look at staff as disposable. This company has a serious history of heartless layoffs around Christmas and recently it’s been taken to a new level. They set a number of engineers up where they were told to work with an outside team, and after passing them all the information, they fired the team and outsourced the work. People don’t find new jobs over Christmas. HR was totally quiet and seemed powerless to do what is right. And they provided almost no severance. We’re a small company, this stuff spreads. People find out. Why not give them a heads up so they could look until Feb when companies start hiring again. Or give them a good severance to give them time. Upper management doesn’t push work towards the greater vision but all focus and projects are limited to the 1 client only. This results in no growth, and creative ideas are squashed. The teams are constantly overworked and always in fear of getting fired because they say yes to every demand and give promises on deadlines that are completely unrealistic. You would think that if upper management develops an Amazon style culture compensation would also be matching. But compensation is just average, there is NO bonus to speak of and they quietly have stopped giving out the stock options, as useless as they were.
