- Redundancies dressed up as "right sizing", getting rid of staff in one country, only to replace them with cheaper staff in another country.
- Only hiring R&D roles in India.
- Obsessed with AI
- Upper management don't seem to know what software the company makes
- Promotions only given to those who work on certain software
- Lack of recognition
- Poor pay increases which are connected to performance. If you perform well, you get between 2 and 3% raise
- Doesn't follow its own values
- Purchases new companies, only to gut them
- Downsizes and gets rid of offices, only to open a new office in a new city and country
- Constant negativity about financial growth, "only grew by 12%, we wanted 15%"
- Clear favouritism shown to certain software teams and companies
- Poor planning from management (decreasing sizes of teams, only to then realise the team is now too small to hit targets and deadlines)
- Once celebrated a piece of software as the future, all while the software was unmanaged, had no developers assigned to it, and was lost for a while
- Poor promotion of software they own.