- constant over-engineering - simple CRUD webapps take a year to complete
- pretending to make data driven decisions when in fact the decision was made and the data is just found to make the decision look correct
- leadership's internal propaganda department will never take the hard questions on slido and answer them publicly, instead cherry picking fluffy questions to smugly answer
- crappy hybrid policy (they tell you which 3 days you should be in office)
- departments spend 4 intense months every year planning the next year, then throw half of the plan out of the window
- worst product owners I've worked with, the product org seems to think you throw the product over the fence when it's defined and it magically gets engineered with no further interaction - they don't own anything.
- differing salaries for the same job in different parts of the company
- childish politicking at the higher levels
- union busting and constantly fighting the works council publicly
- A explicit policy of making people work a job one level up while not paid for it ("squad lead in training") doesn't get paid squad lead money for (usually) at least a year
- Rewarding the most senior people in the company for steering the ship in to an iceberg by granting them shares early (at rock bottom prices) - sends the message: tank the stock again and maybe you'll get more rock bottom prices.
- amazon culture flooding in - if i wanted the amazon culture, i'd go work at amazon
- culture of fear - barely anybody ever speaks up
- Terrible promotion/salary increase policies (you're competing with your peers for a pool of money, if everybody does well then nobody does well). "Calibration" ensures that everybody becomes average - don't know how you expect great work. (tough times imply more people are average or below average, surprise!)
