Ovation Development Reviews

- Was promised a “project based” bonus structure in offer letter. Most likely, this was copy paste from their PM offers… they had no infrastructure or standardization of what tech projects were at my scope. I never got a bonus. - At my 6mo mark, was promised a bonus from COO at EOY, for high performance. I was instead laid off at EOY. - Laid off with 2 week notice and 1 month severance. Was advised to seek unemployment if I need more money. - Was moved between departments at seemingly random times. Kept in the dark, only informed at time of layoff that I was moved because they felt I was underutilized. - Some stakeholders had obvious feelings / pushback on matters of technical security, likely believing they don’t need much things. E.g., explaining why I can’t secure a public webapp with a static 4 digit pin. - Some stakeholders don’t respect the process. I spent an unplanned 2 hours in a VPs office while she manually fed me invoices that she expended I’d add up in an Excel sheet on the fly, with no way to validate my work—yet with my name plastered all over the finished product. - Team used me to work out many of their pet projects and some growing pains. Building web apps, databases, … it became my role. But once I was laid off, the CEO called one of the bigger projects I’d spent time on “just silly.” His opinion was probably that they don’t need the tool, but then he should have spoke his mind earlier. This came across like he didn’t understand my role. - I pushed for a team to help manage the workload. I feel like that was part of the decision to lay me off. - work from home was inconsiderable, except for cases where I literally had no way to get to work. Otherwise, you show up. - No team to help develop anything - Very high degree of silo-ed skill and information between departments.

Sometimes the expectations are slightly unrealistic. Nothing crazy.