As a junior, if you deal with imposter syndrome and/or anxiety, these people prey on it, they reinforce your negative beliefs, tell you you’re not made out for being a developer- something you are passionate about and worked hard to earn your degree(s) in. I have never had a lower self esteem and worse mental health as I did working in MasterCard as a young software engineer.
It was mandatory for All members of the team to join a ridiculous amount of meetings they did not gain value from. Engineers were also expected to deliver well a lot of work, within a sprint, which they were forced to do outside of working hours, weekends, holidays etc.
If you take a sick day you were bullied over it unless the manager or scrum master were the ones who were sick.
Poor work life balance, you can be working 12hr shifts ( or longer if on call, my longest days were 16hr,and no overtime pay )
- On-call rota has you on shift way too regularly, leading to many weekends and nights affected- especially since you will be working very late most nights anyway.
- Nightmarish scrum master who openly targets and humiliates engineers in daily standups, which is ignored by manager, as this harassment causes more work to be done by engineers in their free time.
- Sprint retros include targeted bullying.
It was a traumatic experience and I regret ever having worked here. The the happiest day of my life was the long awaited last day of work, after the two month notice period.
