ING reviews

- Too much politics. - Blame game works the best if played well. Nothing new, but ING managers somehow belive words and do not prefer to get evidence about blames. - Old employees are too arrogant and sometimes childish and management does not say anything to their ridiculous logics. - One cannot just say - "I don't know" even at the cost of saying wrong things. - In the name of timeline, engineers hide their incompetencies and POs are too non-technical to even understand the problem. - Chapter leads evaluate you, but they might not even work with you to understand how are you doing in general.

Can't change anything. A toxic environment where culture of personality is really a thing. The entire organization is a stupid attempt to gave the outside feeling of being tech but it really isn't. They sell themselves as being inspired from google and spotify in their processes while they do not think about consequences or weather those things are applicable or not for particular scenarios. Concrete example: some smart manager from Amsterdam read a book called Accelerate in which they say teams should be formed by 8 developers which is a nice thing if you think but while some teams are 8 developers in a squad (a squad forming a tribe) the volume of work for each team is much different. They are restructuring all the time, reorganizing applications on domains coming with all sorts unrealistic ideas that do not stand for a long time which in the end leads to nothing but wasting your time and energy. Furthermore, at least in my department when you were trying to change something there was this "super" manager called Ilchenko saying: but this puts pressure on the team, isn't it? Like that's a thing not being productive and bringing value to the products the company is developing. Centric decision making with no documentation or reasoning behind it. People not challenging all these things hard enough for something actual to be happening.