No support for growth, no direction, no paying down tech debt - Recensione dipendente - Software Engineer presso DMI

I knew I was underpaid because I never pushed very hard on salary stuff (I did get one 5K raise/title bump, but every other annual raise was 2% or less), and I don't feel there was much support for my growth as a software engineer. A lot of fighting fires, and not a lot of support for paying down technical debt, except when there was approval for considering a rewrite. DMI took over the contract and did a reorganization that nobody working there was happy with. Later on, there was what I believe was a stealth layoff (they had devs working on too many non-dev things and weren't filling positions when they left), followed by some actual layoffs after I left. It's possible these reductions were at the request of the customer.