It was great until it suddenly wasn't. - Recensione dipendente - Software Developer presso PayByPhone

The parent company karate-chopped all existing management in 2019 and turned PayByPhone into a corporate landscape. Most old employees soon followed as VWFS did its finest to destroy existing culture (and of course existing organizational and technical knowledge). Endless layers upon layers of new useless positions and managers in an ever increasingly complicated hierarchy. Organizational practices promoted the hiring of corporate-drone managers. Managers seriously overstepping into dictating coding practices 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘻𝘦𝘳𝘰 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘰𝘧𝘵𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨. Morale dropped significantly and has never returned. They now have 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 employee retention, exacerbated with raises 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. The turnover is so bad, they stopped announcing when people left the company. Imagine hitting up Slack to find an old coworker left the company 5 months prior without you knowing. Great for morale. Managers who would previously champion your career development left for far more lucrative positions. New managers fail to promote their teams upwards, leaving zero career development internally. Simultaneously they fail to shield their team from the trickle-down mess of this corporate environment. Meetings that last hours and hours and hours.