Creativity and innovation are not only discouraged but actively punished. You will be expected to churn out the same solutions to new problems without ever making improvements or changes of any kind. You will be expected to do things the exact way Secureworks has always done them. You will not be expected to know how to engineer solutions to new problems: you will be expected to know how to copy and paste code. There is a culture of meeting the status quo at Secureworks.
Management is lost. I was hired before my project was planned and ready because a middle manager did not want to lose his budget surplus. I was temporarily placed on another team that failed to communicate with me and decided not to assign me work because I would leave them for a new team at some point. On my new team, there was no work to do for the first month because the project goals had never been finalized. About 6 months into my employment, my manager was changed out for a new manager and I was not told. I continued to contact my old manager and eventually the new manager got mad at me for not communicating with him.
Our projects had no direction. During my first few months on my project, we changed our goals bi-weekly. We ended up thrashing because we could not settle on strategies, technologies or even end goals. Our managers would rarely pay attention but would attend meetings just to get mad at us for being off schedule.
Secureworks is a failed meritocracy. Our managers rarely attended meetings and rarely held 1-on-1s so they relied on reports to make their judgement. The senior most member of the team would take all of the user stories for himself. He would complete enough to claim the story points but left many errors and holes because most of his work was copied from others' work which he did not understand. The remaining work would fall on the team to fix his half-complete job. Then, the manager would praise that senior engineer then chew me out for not completing new user stories.
Management should re-evaluate their priorities. A co-worker of mine was sent a very nasty email for missing a meeting because he had an appointment with his doctor, which was scheduled long before the meeting.
Working for home left most team members very lonely and depressed.
