Designing of system or Lack of it:
The system design is the topic no one wants to touch. Whenever they talk about design, it should come from tests. Since I worked for 5 years where test cases had meaning to validate the logic, here the test means to design which no one uses.
Pair Programming:
Its the biggest nightmare. It's really hard to convince a person who has a totally different mindset about the approach than you and what you end up doing is wasting time. Also if you are not doing test-driven development(TDD), you are a bad developer. I find it to be totally nonsense topic.
Team Leads:
The know really fancy words and how they work but they have no idea of how to implement it. The thing can be solved be simple design will be rejected. What they need is million of transactions, Kafka zookeeper consul and what not. Most of the time they don't even know what's the uses case of these services.
People Champions:
The HR team lacks the skill of talking and motivating people. All they know that they are the best in the world. TW is solving one of biggest problems in the world.
Favoritism:
The lead will pick the people. He will decide who will work on what. If you are on good terms with your leads he will give you awesome tasks else it's really hard for you to even switch the jobs here. This is the only principle that works here.
If you have an intention to have a good carrier, please avoid this organization.
