From good to bad to ugly - Recensione dipendente - Dipendente anonimo presso Beamery

The company has been in decline for 2 years. Stability is non existent, 4 redundancy rounds in as many years and twice as many engineering restructures make it a hard environment to settle. To refute a recent review this is not about intolerance to change but a signal of low cohesion and conviction. Favouritism is rife. Senior leadership are too far removed (and in some cases too incompetent to realise) from day to day to understand the challenges engineering face. This results in performance being an assessment of presence and sycophantic tendancy as opposed to a measure of competence and substance. The excuse of "we're a startup" or "we're a scale up" is often peddled to explain repeated bad decision making or corner cutting using whichever is convenient at the time. Constant flux results in people owning products and software they are unfamiliar with. Often poorly built, even the newer stuff, time is scarce to improve quality and resilience before the next restructure. There are too many people who add little to no value and this puts pressure on others. Accountability is low, where it is expressed it is only in words not action. Benefits that made Beamery stand out in the job market have been eroded. Sabbaticals after 2/4 years tenure and first Friday of the month off are now a thing of the past. The salary remains competitive but don't expect it to change unless you're considered a flight risk. There is more as the soap opera continues but this is already lengthy so will bring this to a close.