There are a lot worse places than this - Intermediate Software Engineer UPMC Employee Review

3.0
Sep 28, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Depending on the project you're assigned to, there are a lot of technologies to play with. Most people are friendly and easy-going. The tech leads are very knowledgeable from a technical perspective. There were only a few times when there was an expectation of putting in excessive hours. The building is modern and smells nice every day. If you leave at 5 PM or later you will never have to pay for parking.

Cons

Had a start-up feel but has grown too big. Scrum teams that exceed 20 engineers in size. Projects where scope and direction change every sprint. The tech leads are not always so good at team management (they either micromanage or don't manage at all). Expected overhead is 25 - 40% every sprint. You have to volunteer for everything if you ever want to get ahead (monthly recruiting events, company-wide presentations [brown bags], consistently putting yourself well over 100% capacity, presenting company-wide sprint demos even though you're not presenting to stakeholders). Upper management loves pointless social gatherings (all-day "tech idea" events, all-day monthly meetings, waffle Wednesday, ice cream socials, etc.), which may seem like fun morale boosters until they're mandatory and you realize it's the end of the sprint and there's a lot of work to be done. You're in an open, warehouse-type environment so it can get noisy. Despite being UPMC, the medical benefits are not very good.

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

..its a job helps pay the bills but want to pivot out to something new I'm very lucky until that happens my Team is awesome to work with!

Cons

Hire Educators!! Healthcare education and systems are failing its employees since covid we need to pivot and get back to helping constantly educate. We have Covid taught Nurses and Doctors not meaning badly but there is a disconnect -not understanding what is common in your scope of practice and not "knowing" how to do something or waiting for someone else to take care is lazy and if you are too afraid to ask for help you please don't be in the medical field. Ohh stop giving so many "chances" to people that should be fired a long time ago and not keep them bc "we need staff"-it hurts everyone with that one person!

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