Only a (Dyna)trace of it's past left
Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich
With it's undeniable global market presence, the topics and challenges that are worked on inside the R&D department outshine all of the other mundane and often repetative technological challenges that other companies in the austrian IT sector have to offer.
Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich
The drastic change in the corporate culture and the rise of office politics are erroding what was once a proud software engineering company.
Verbesserungsvorschläge
Communication: Stop "selling" things to the employees via e-mails full of marketing buzzwords. Transport decisions verbally and in-person via empathic and well-regarded local leaders, that will go above and beyond to explain why things are decided the way they are and most importantly addressing concerns from the get-go.
Career: (Further) separate the organizational and technical leadership in the form of e.g. Staff Engineers that can properly judge and value engineering performances in order to stop good engineering talent to become (more) disheartened.
I think it is not to late to turn around the ship, however, it needs an earnest shift in leadership culture to stop from a brain-drain in the near future.
Kommunikation
It becomes more and more apparent that most of the decision-making is now done by the leadership team in the US, which in my personal opinion, simply cannot transport any decision no matter what gravitas with any emotionally intelligent nuance. Instead, employees are simply steamrolled by new polices with buzzword-laden corporate newspeak.
On the upside, it does feel at times that the remaining leadership in Austria, which I think is often outnumbered, is fighting the good fight and trying to counteract the corporatization of what was once a pragmatic and lean company.
Arbeitsbedingungen
Open, bright, and overall lovely offices across all continents.
Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein
It feels as if all of the enviromental efforts are done to reach ESG goals in order to appease the market and shareholders - a classical case of "greenwashing" so to say.
Image
The image, in my opinion, is as of late taking a hit both internally and externally as the communication issues mentioned above are clouding the opinion of many longtime Dynatracers.
Karriere/Weiterbildung
With the massive growth and corporatization over the past years it feels as if engineering performance has become more or less a non-factor in career growth. Playing the game of office politics has become more and more commonplace amongst peers and seems to be a more viable strategy for career advancement.