1. People are not in their positions per experience.
All decision maker position are hold either by yesterday students or those who are far behind from experience perspective (e.g. 1 year experience is enough to be head of something here, medium developer can be often seen as tech lead here etc.).
Consequences of this are the following:
1.1 There is "high school" group of hysterical and non experienced employees that tries to control the game in hidden way.
Everybody should say how much they like stupid ideas this group generates, otherwise they may find that the person understands people from this group are not experienced at all. When they find that they will start the process of hunting this person so that others will afraid to say a word.
1.2 People are lost without any guidance and processes. Everybody tries to reinvent the wheel everyday both from technical and organisational perspectives.
You cannot say "this is reinventing the wheel" since this will lead to hunting immediately.
1.3 From tech perspective this lead to fun situations.
Some examples:
- Infrastructure is broken almost everyday in a hidden way (you will find it only after seeing your product being down). Concrete examples of this are ignored. Discussion of improvement is banned formally - it leads to hunting.
- Lack of controlling the quality of solutions delivered (teams are free to skip QA checks if they personally don't want it). The result is regressions introduced everyday. Everybody thinks this is normal behaviour. Discussion of any improvement leads to hunting.
- Nobody controls the scope of releases. You increase the scope in any moment just because you like it. You can move tasks between releases just because you like it, no considering of clients need or at least consultancy with product owner.
- No commitment to releases. The only thing you need to care is making "high school" group happy, delivering business value is not important.
- Resume Driven Development is everywhere. Clients needs are not considered, what developer likes is priority #1.
2. "Culture of feedback".
Company advertise its "culture of feedback" but in fact it's the tool of hunting those who made "high school" group unhappy.
Feedback culture assumes safety of both sides who share feedback and a possibility of being listened. In reality you have to listen to untruth and your words mean nothing. No facts are provided as a proof of that untruth, and your facts that proof your position are ignored.
3. Politics is priority #1. Delivering business value is priority #100.
4. Responsibilities of people are changed in random way very often.
You can be hired for one set of responsibilities. But after you started working you're said there are no responsibilities at all - try to find your place under the sun.
Consequences of all these points are that experienced people leaving the company at high speed. They are replaced with lots of students/interns.
Hard to find any team working with the same number of people for several months - people are leaving constantly.
This is very unique company. I've never seen anything close to this and I've seen lots of companies.
