You get what you incentivize
Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich
They had some interesting tasks
Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich
I think the tone was set during my onboarding. The person doing it was more concerned with talking about "Thirsty Thursdays" to us than inviting the remote employees to the proper calls. It was rather hectic, and led to just sitting around for an hour plus to be invited to important onboarding meetings.
I was hit with this giant wave of negative talk from all of the managers above me about my 3rd week. It's like the company just flipped from these super intelligent folks to people running around frantically trying to update power point slides like they're putting out a fire.
I couldn't focus on my job, or my onboarding because when I sat down to focus on my team, the upper management folks were just really overbearing..
Verbesserungsvorschläge
- Keep the director/vp/c-level talk at that level, don't let the anxiety trickle down onto teams.
- Have a better onboarding process. Don't leave two people alone for hours asking the wrong people to get into a meeting
- Encouragement goes a long ways
- The first month sets the tone for folks, when you are onboarding, focus on the onboarding, not on the stressors
Arbeitsatmosphäre
So there are two sides to this as a manager. Somehow Emma has built a large wealth of engineering knowledge in their lower engineering ranges. For that I think three stars. I am not really sure how. At the Engineering Managers and above, wow, it's chaotic.
Work-Life-Balance
My third week until pretty much I left there was an emergency daily meeting that took hours to prepare for. Myself and others would spend an hour preparing for a dialy meeting. During the meeting there was often these weird statements like "I don't think you're aligned, perhaps we need to schedule another alignment meeting before this". In your first month at a company I think this isn't something any person is equipped to do well.
I never walked out of a day feeling good about my work.
Kollegenzusammenhalt
At the team level, everyone was pretty cool
Vorgesetztenverhalten
This was probably the worst part. The way people talk about your team, and your performance in front of you is abhorrent. I would get ranted at for 20 minutes for no reason other than micromanagement. The language used was extremely aggressive, and just in general had no place in a modern workplace.
When asking for the talking down behavior to be cooled down the response was always something along the lines of that's just the way they are, and we're not going to try to improve.
Arbeitsbedingungen
Don't expect to see the folks interviewing you on your first day, they're all leaving. I can totally understand why.
The only people left will probably be the folks that manage up really well, which is unfortunate, because wow....the engineers are fantastic.
Kommunikation
The communication was really hard for me. It felt like a giant game of telephone
Interessante Aufgaben
I think the company shines in this department. It's got so many hard tasks with great solutions.