1. No culture, No process, No trust
2. Global leadership lacks to build a culture of respect and collaboration across different locations.
3. No transparency, competition between different sites to build the same solution which wastes time and resources and credibility.
4. No trust and projects are failing due to this.
5. No job safety. Good performers and asked to leave in the name of redundancy. No respect for employees who build business outcomes.
6. No culture of recognition and appreciation.
7. Escalations are everyday's routine.
8. Time spent to solve noise between teams than focusing on actual work.
9. Some sites are growing due to leadership trust and supoort from stakeholders and some sites are getting maintenance work due to no stakeholder support though there is talent and skill.
10. Biased and no timezone respect. Expecting employees to work round the clock and keep sending updates.
11. Commercial and product teams have no collaboration with engineering leadership. They are always in escalation mode setting unrealistic timelines without right priority.
12. Priorities keep changing every week based on who asks what from leadership or Commercial teams. Engineering team suffers ultimately.
13. Features or projects built for 6 to 7 months are thrown away due to bad prioritization and leadership following the lead of Commercial teams without listening to Engineering teams.
14. Delayed decisions are common where projects suffer and engineers are blamed for not executing. Projects which are completed by working on multiple weekends are stalled due to incorrect requirements and scope. Leadership looks at the end result, but not the journey or root cause of the result. They dont have time and listens to the narrative of teams sitting in US only.
15. Key to survive is to have good relation with people in US and some influential folks from non-eng teams who have opinion on Eng strategy or code written. We need to put effort to manage them and things get done. Leadership suddenly starts appreciating the team.
16. Great vision on ppts and failure in execution. Employees are insulted every time in large meetings for reasons as simple as not filling excel data in the format they want to see. No one is able to control such unacceptable behaviour. Engineering has become support system for product team than partner. Though mentioned to leadership, they look at business outcomes not the developer experience or the toxic environment created to get things done
17. No cross site collaboration. There is power game played to get more products or projects in each site where employees struggle and suffer.
