Constant reorgs, poor management, and lack of direction overshadow otherwise great colleagues and learning opportunities - Recensione dipendente - Software Engineer presso TomTom

- Chaotic direction and constant reorganisations: Frequent restructures and shifting priorities make it difficult to plan long-term or grow within the company. - Overly corporate: Decision-making is slow and heavily bureaucratic. Many layers of approval before anything moves forward. - Employee feedback is rarely acted upon. - Poor compensation structure: Salaries in Belgium (after tax) are well below market for anything below Software Engineer 4 due to poor optimization (no mobility budget or company car, low net lump sum, no cafetaria plan, etc.). Meanwhile, raises and promotions is slow and not transparent. - Cross-team collaboration is painful: Teams you depend on often refuse to help unblock your work, citing "tight deadlines". Even simple requests require formal escalation or ticketing which kills productivity. - Inconsistent work ethics across regions: Different country offices operate with different priorities. Some are people first, while others aren't. This creates friction and impacts morale and mental health. - Communication issues: Major decisions are often made without informing or even consulting the teams that will be affected. - Meeting overload: Expect to spend about 30% of your time in meetings (even as an engineer), many of which could easily have been an email or a short document. - Poor work-life balance: Often times expected to do on-call without an on-call implementation in place. Production issues would lead to people being contacted via private messages in evenings and asked to help (without any compensation).