MDA reviews

Tech stack is at least 5 to 10 years behind current market trends. The "required" high security context of the work delays design decisions. Which results in using the "tried and true" method. Lots of legacy code that is very difficult to maintain. Everything is done the cheapest way possible. From limiting developer resources to the point of blocking engineering work to reusing old solutions. Sr staff are not always friendly and shoot down new ideas claiming "it is not the way of the company". "My way or the high way" messages coming from leadership team, with management refusing to advocate for the engineering staff. Every project and team I've encountered is short staffed and struggling to meet their goals. Leadership rather hire junior engineers at a cheaper cost over properly paying their current employees.

- Low compensation, low annual merit increases - High turnover rate because of low compensation, and management isn't doing anything about it - Very unorganized structure. My team of 6 people had 4 different managers (almost 1 manager for each member), but I've only spoken to each one of them 1 or 2 times a year. - Working on some AWS tech, and management is too cheap to pay for AWS dev accounts. So we have 6 members sharing 1 AWS account. - Forcing employees to take 1 week vacation on employees' accrued vacation.