- Lack of organization.
- Lack of role description (the roles overlap each other and many times you have no one or many people doing the same thing). You never know exactly what you need to do until someone throws some work on your lap.
- Lack of career progression definition (you know they are 5 levels per career path but no one shows a documentation explaining the levels and how to go from one to the other).
- No salary increase in 2017 (referent to 2016).
- Undefinition of the new office address.
- Office crowds. They are hiring more people and the solution is to reduce areas like the kitchen or the size of the desks.
- Reactive standards. Most of the things are reactive (and it does not matter how many times you point something is about to happen).
- Lack of documentation (and with the amount of people leave the knowledge is being drained too).
- Engineering process that does not work properly. Instead of trying to figure out what works the decision is to find everything that is popular in the industry and "implement" it. So you end up with a waterfall-scrum-kanban process which does not work.
- The importance is much bigger on how things look rather than how things really is. The effort made on boards and slides to make things look good is unbelievable.
- Many meetings: Meetings all day, meetings for everything, meetings with loads of people (that do not know why they are there, meetings to plan other meetings, meetings to talk about the previous meetings...
- New hires are offered much more money (well that may be a good point if you are reading this before an offer).
- New hires are considered super-stars. They define new rules and flows with total disregard with is already in place.
- Non-collaborative environment: People define things and throw it on everyone else. People are not consulted and opinions are not asked. Project, product, automation etc... Some day you will receive an e-mail with how to do something and there will be no space for collaboration on that.
- Culture is being forced. As I said before the culture was great, however now the culture is the result of a planned strategy. People needed to be reminded 300 times of an event so an attendance would exist. Non work-related speeches are mandatory (kindergarten style) so you can show to the presenter people are "interested".
- Amount of "spotlight seekers" is growing. There are a few people which main objective is to show of (for auto-promotion or to hide the lack of technical abilities). Those are not hard to spot and many times they progress more than the hard-workers.
- Since the Verizon acquisition there is some uncertainty about what will change. A good advice would be to search for Verizon Telematics here on Glassdoor and check their reviews.
- Mobile is the underdog. All the lights are on the web solution. All the decisions are made to work on the web solution and then the mobile team needs to cope with that. Do not expect a dynamic and exciting environment for mobile development.
