Important work, lack of mentorship, not Agile, so-so pay - Recensione dipendente - Junior UI Developer presso CGI

- I had two total conversations with my manager, one welcoming me to CGI and one when I left. At no point was my manager interested in my growth or career advancement. - Management had us doing what they thought was Agile. Here's what they thought Agile was: you point and groom everything and then senior management ignores the engineers, tells everyone what they are going to work on and overloaded the sprint. So rather than empowering engineers to work on the things that they felt would be most impactful or to which they would be best suited, it was a top-down waterfall approach to every piece of code on our way to an MVP. So all of the busywork of Agile with none of the sense of ownership, flexibility, or achievable goals. Every retro was "why did we fall short of our sprint goals?" and the common denominator was it was way too many points per sprint. We switched to t-shirt sizing because it was thought that maybe then our sprint goals might become more reasonable, which was silly because the work takes just as many hours when you swap scales. - Management was overly optimistic on pretty much every aspect of the project with the client. At a certain point, it was clear the client realized this. They weren't dumb. - I was hired despite clearly stating that I did not have experience with a particular coding language. In the interview I was told that was fine and that there would be plenty of mentoring opportunities to get me up to speed. I accepted the job with this understanding. I got there and when asked by Senior Management if I had the relevant experience with coding language X I said no but I was really excited to learn. I was pointed toward "maybe Udemy would have a course?..." - I was once asked if I was "taking the weekend off" after working the previous two weekends. My salary was based on a 40 hour work week Monday-Friday, with additional flex time I was unable to use because it expired weekly. (To be clear, I've worked jobs with more hours per week, and I've worked jobs where I worked on the weekends, but in those cases, it was expected and clearly marked and clearly compensated. This was a slow ramping up, passive-aggressively introduced, and then treated as normal) - The mentorship I did get was due to a more senior engineer taking time out of their schedule. This person was actively encouraged not to mentor the junior engineers because their output was needed, even though mentoring junior engineers would have sped up work by a much larger factor than this person's contributions, because they were constantly cleaning things up. - I finally managed to snag a job elsewhere and leave after working through and interviewing during my family vacation, where I was unable to take time off even though I barely touched my vacation time. - Some of the senior developers and management were particularly in love with the languages they found most familiar, even though I've come to realize that other languages and architectures would have worked better for the project we were working on. - Pay and benefits were mediocre. I am at over twice my CGI offer with far better benefits.