Bad upper management - Lead Engineer Abarca Employee Review

1.0
May 5, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Remote work, thats pretty much it.

Cons

Horrible upper management, the “amazing” culture they pride themselves for is non-existent and its just used as a justification for bad decisions and behavior. Incompetent salaries all over the company due to budget cuts caused by upper management bad decisions. Upper management is also constantly getting salary increases and promotions while the rest of the employees are getting impacted by huge budget cuts that are affecting productivity, if you need a new tool to do your job, you better start begging for it. The amount of meetings and planning in order to execute a small tasks is overwhelming and will very often stay there because management is too “busy” to even approve what they requested. You can never say no to the client on anything and upper management will set unrealistic expectations just to please a client. The calibration process to determine employee performance is horrible and inaccurate. They also don’t care about supporting you with continuous education. Only a few friends of upper management will get more benefits than others.

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Cons

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3.0
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Pros

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Cons

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