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changing industry / dying industry

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Nothing I can think of

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* Excessive focus on hour tracking, even for salaried employees - including software engineers.
  - There were debates about how to log hours for lunch and holidays in JIRA. Wat.
  - Despite direct managers pushing to keep this extensive hour tracking updated, it was pretty clear it wasn't actually being *used* for anything.

* Silly, useless management decisions.
  - They removed all internal office window blinds in the interest of 'transparency'. Seriously.
  - Continuing decrease in quality and quantity of perks like snacks and drinks.

* History of quasi-criminal shenanigans at higher levels of management that is still impacting the company.

* Weird addition of offshore employees to teams whose managers did not understand why they were getting them.
  - Most of the offshore employees didn't work out, but sucked large amounts of training time down.
  - Caused morale problems and general confusion, especially over job security.

* Decrepit Perl codebase full of broken custom implementations of now-standard Perl modules, meaning there's little to nothing in the way of documentation.
  - Few best practices are followed.
  - They were literally anti-comment for years- you can go for dozens of modules without finding a *single* line of commented code.
  - No one knows what large portions of the codebase are even for anymore.

* Deep, in-grained acceptance of awful, long, and delicate manual procedures for doing all sorts of common tasks; half of the work being done at any given time was manual 'busy-work'.

* No understanding of continuous deployment/integration despite claims to the contrary; going from code to actual deployment has to go through several other teams for manual sign-off or handling by each and the process takes days to weeks.

* First 'all-hands' involved a handful of people cramming into a small glass-walled conference room, while 90% of employees stood outside and tried to watch and listen to what was going on from outside.

* You're ultimately working to help advertisers - you're not exactly making the world a better place. It's hard to wake up in the morning just to make sure your code produces the right numbers for some marketing drone's spreadsheet.

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Lacking career planning means nobody ever moves up or sideways in this company; you need to get schooled by yourself entirely, nothing is initiated by management/HR/organisation. Same goes for pay. If you don't ask, you wil never get a decent pay raise. Everyone just smiles and then looks the other way when serious problems are addressed in meetings.

There are tons and tons of organisational issues. I seriously wonder if management even understands the tech that goes in the products that make the company money. Upper management has been promising the heavens for years, then kicks out essential workers, leaving the rest to wonder how on earth we should move on. Then at some point VPs and other high level executives will get replaced or resign, some new "I'm going to make a change" person is appointed.. and... nothing changes.

Politics politics politics, and a culture beyond repair.

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Financial scandal and related merger continue to plague organization.

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* Work/life balance could be better (when I was there anyway)
* Stress

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The marketing team lacks communication, and HR is based in Netherland, they have no clue about Singapore CPF, work passes, any questions you have they are not able to help you. Instead, you need to explain everything to them. How can a company even set up in Singapore without knowing all these essential information?

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Company was delisted (though it has since been relisted), regular layoffs, perks are disappearing, worst 401k matching I’ve ever seen. No strategic vision and constant leadership change. Very low morale and productivity. Poor organizational structure, you have to talk to 20 separate teams to get one thing done. This is not the usual level of disorganization. No one seems to notice or care about the rate at which female leaders are being removed. Lots of people doing low value work but the organization is such a mess that sr leadership can’t tell or don’t care because they’re too busy trying to save themselves.