Still a lot of soul searching, redefining methodology, all heavily in flux. More important, people are not appreciated, and management has a rather dictatorial attitude. When moving to the new location, there were "consultations" with employees about the proposed open floor plan. There were many objections, all with practical arguments. All objections were met with "not gonna happen", "not negociable", etc. The plan proceeded without any change, and an employee (one with a lot of experience in all aspects and one of the most productive) raised a few concerns about the floor plan, the management was startled and replied "...but I thought you liked it"... A few weeks later, that employee was let go for "ongoing performance issues". There are more such cases; for example, an employee refused to mark a bug as fixed (it wasn't) to allow release on schedule. The product was released anyway, and when the bug was found after deployment to customer, that employee was blamed for it.
Compensation for Engineering is barely competitive, it is relatively easy for the former employees to find better paid positions in the area. In one case, a (former) employee obtained almost twice as much at another company.
