Lots of potential, but poor management is holding them back - Recensione dipendente - Developer presso eNom

As a Demand Media company: Senior management seems very shady. Millions of dollars are funneled into acquiring companies owned by friends of upper executives. VPs that do virtually nothing but try to accept credit for others work and blame others for their own failures are hired in Santa Monica at high pay. Within eNom itself: Developers are not treated like they are appreciated. Management knows little about actual professional code development practices, nor do they care. Coordination for code release and QA is a joke. Developers are given arbitrary deadlines to hit that usually have no connection with real life, so they are forced to cut corners to get things out on time. Then, they are expected to waste over half of their time fixing the stuff they threw out there to make upper management happy. Projects that get pushed are most often something dreamed up by some upper manager, then all resources are devoted to developing something that many times ends up being scrapped or is a huge failure. Suggestions for product improvements by employees are generally turned down (recent "Hackathon" notwithstanding). Many projects need to be updated, fixed, or rewritten to accommodate features that customers have asked for but managers will not allow the changes for fear that something will break. High visibility projects are highly prized, and announced loudly to the company with the slogan "Big Win!!!" even though they contribute little to the bottom line. If your project happens to be absolutely necessary for backend servers to function but there is no pretty UI attached, expect to be asked what you "actually did" during the year in your review. Promotions are rare, as friends of management are usually brought in from outside the company to fill those roles.