Autodesk Sr. Software Engineer reviews

- Project scope, language and framework was changed right after I started - Old and crufty codebase with poor documentation, inconsistent code style rules (mix of semicolons and non-semicolons in a js project), inconsistent file structure - Manager once told me to get back to work after I spent 8 minutes in Slack chat discussing the pros and cons of a few terms related to testing; got told that I should be coding but had been told that I needed to be more collaborative 5 minutes earlier in the conversation. Typical "read my mind" sort of criticism from that manager. - Manager seemed surprised that I posted a Confluence doc about the vertical whitespace rules that I and 2 team members agreed on. The project was many years old and no one had written down style rules. Manager said "I thought all languages wanted zero whitespace". I had no response to this, I was just flabbergasted. This is one of the most WTF statements I've ever heard from a manager. I told a colleague about it (someone with close to 20 years experience) and his response was one word: "Run". For an example of vertical whitespace in a modern js project: see packages/react/src/React.js in the React github repo (not allowed to link it here) - Team member told me "your question was innapropriate" after I told them that the condescending response I got to a question was innapropriate. When someone tells you you are being inappropriate you don't say "no, u", that's rude. This team has issues.

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