Don't waste your time, Toxic management, zero trust, and Scrum matters more than engineering
Verbesserungsvorschläge
Stop pretending to listen when you've already made up your mind. Stop treating every disagreement as a personal attack. Trust your engineers, accept criticism, and learn how to have a technical discussion without turning it into a power struggle.
Scrum meetings are not a replacement for technical competence. And when almost an entire team complains about the same problems, maybe it's time to question the management rather than ignore the employees.
Arbeitsatmosphäre
Micromanagement is ridiculous. Instead of trusting people to do their jobs, management seems more interested in watching employees, finding mistakes, and using weaknesses against them. You feel like you're being monitored rather than managed.
Work-Life-Balance
No weekend work or on-call duties
Predictable working hours.
Kollegenzusammenhalt
Most people on the team are in their first professional job. That's not necessarily bad, but some already behave like senior experts, giving overly confident opinions without enough experience to back them up. There is very little opportunity to learn from genuinely experienced engineers.
Technical leadership is poor. Real engineering discussions are difficult, technical quality seems to matter very little, and everything revolves around Scrum ceremonies and task tracking.
Vorgesetztenverhalten
The biggest problem here is management. They say one thing and do another. Meetings are supposed to be open discussions, but decisions have already been made.
Almost the entire team raised serious concerns together with HR, the works council, and the CTO. Nothing meaningful changed. Even worse, two employees were fired afterward. Whatever the reasons for those dismissals, seeing two colleagues lose their jobs after the team had spoken up made the atmosphere even more frightening and destroyed what little trust remained.
Kommunikation
If you disagree or question something, expect angry reactions instead of a normal professional discussion.
Interessante Aufgaben
The platform also appears to have very limited customer interest, and senior management repeatedly complains about how expensive the team is. That hardly makes anyone feel secure about their future.
The irony? The actual work isn't stressful. It's the management that makes you mentally exhausted.