Engineering - Gone downhill fast, Avoid Digital department - werkgeversreview Software Engineer bij Trinity Mirror

Trinity used to be a great place to work 6 months ago, especially in the Digital teams - Product and Engineering worked really well with Editorial and Commercial, and there was a pleasant, transparent open atmosphere. Then changes in upper management bought in a lot of opaqueness and secrecy. Nobody trusts the new CIO, and he's bringing in his own people and pushing out lots of talented people. Every week sees more high skilled and liked people resigning and leaving the business. It's chaos and nobody at the top cares. The direction of the business isn't being made clear to the staff - we know the concentration isn't on delivering news anymore, and the CIO's approach is to throw any random idea at the wall to see what sticks. But as far as anyone can tell, nobody's done any user research to see if the ideas are any good. The changes in the digital department have created secretive, isolated teams who work on projects without sharing any learnings. Those of us working on the main websites have been told our work for the past few years isn't valued and lots of knowledgeable people are being pushed out. They only new hires are cronies of the CIO, who are being bought in on temporary contracts. More than 50 developers based offshore are being replaced by 11 in-house developers that the company is trying to hire, but offering measly salaries and they will obviously be overworked. The scrum masters and project managers were all sacked, and almost all the product managers have left in disgust. This is a place where engineers are going to be expected to do the work of 3 people, and operate in teams with product managers who have to juggle several different products, and have no scrum master, but still be expected to deliver the earth. My advice: Avoid Trinity Mirror Digital.