Facepalm diaries - Senior Software Engineer UBS Employee Review

1.0
Aug 1, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

If internal employee, getting fired is unlikely

Cons

-2nd class citizen (IT) -higher management without any technical experience, day-dreaming about change -Product owner acting like bottlenecks in team, micromanaging -you will be challenged on common sense stuff (ie. why do TDD, create monoliths) -a mountain of paperwork and bureaucracy for releases -CD/CI in shambles -Sloppy, manual testing, almost zero automation -Never get to work on interesting stuff, always distracted with meaningless tasks -Analysts don't speak with devs for requirements, but with semi-gods product owners -going to extremes to avoid regression testing impact -resulting in code duplication, and bad design -no interest to adopt new technologies

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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