A company in decline - Anonymous employee Watermark Employee Review

1.0
Feb 9, 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Mercifully free of the worst of tech culture, no pretensions to be anything other than a workplace, some genuinely sweet and competent people, unforced fun, hires bootcamp grads

Cons

Where to even start: completely inconsistent feedback and performance reviews, huge growing pains in merging 6+ companies into one (including many people having no idea what some branches do), some truly baffling decisions made in the name of cost cutting, lost at sea when it comes to which products to develop/sell/get rid of, a series of senior engineers/architects leaving and only getting replacing slowly, an infrastruture stack that is frightfully outdated and insecure, a bunch of dead weight employees, low morale to the point that employees are visibly not caring about the job, a smart but often personally inappropriate CTO, a business plan of being sold out in the next few years (which obviously decreases morale even lower), no real culture of mentoring or professional development, just a lot of mess and no real path towards anything better.

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