Terrible Management - Software Engineer HII Employee Review

1.0
Jun 30, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The pay is good. However, I was hired by a different company that was acquired by HII.

Cons

There is a constant shuffle of upper and middle management. You will be working for one person for a few months before you are handed off to another person. Many times it makes no sense to you or your management why you are working together. Middle management is so afraid of being fired that stupid decision making in upper management goes unchallenged. Then those poor decisions end up falling on lower level employees to resolve. Communication is extremely poor. Decision making is made without input from the people who will end up doing the work. This is the worst environment for software development I have ever encountered in 20 years as a software engineer.

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Pros

Work is steady, good benefits, flexible schedule.

Cons

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2.0
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Pros

Remote Work, Flex Schedule, Benefits are decent enough.

Cons

It is very much a boys club between management, leads, and HR. HR is there to protect the company, not you. The moment you have something crazy happen (and you will because most people in positions of power are old retired navy guys who cant even work a computer usually and would rather praddle on about "the good ole days") and you report it to HR, you immediately will be retaliated against, even when HR says you wont. Its tough to say how you wont when they immediately inform your supervisor. I also hate how they are an "inclusive" company, and yet I have been called more slurs and received more backlash for being LGBT when its not even being presented, I just want to log in, work, ask questions, log off.

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