Avoid automotive IVI business unit - Senior Software Engineer HERE Technologies Employee Review

1.0
Jun 14, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

- Free transportation ticket - Office in a good location

Cons

The following applies to IVI group a unit of "Services group" formerly automotive division. - Managers are old but pretty inexperienced. Continuously pushing for nearly impossible deadlines that were decided arbitrarily by themselves. Sometimes it seems their goal is just to keep their position and find someone else to do their job. - "Cheap" outsourcing is a common strategy to overcome the problem of rotten software as a result of a bad planification, lack of process and unrealistic deadlines. This outsourcing does not care about quality and creates more technical debt that generates more outsourcing. - Despite lots of product managers, no product strategy for the company. Always following car makers orders without any attempt to innovate. - No software development process whatsoever. -Long working days. Stress is normally high and can be very high before deadlines. Motivation inside the team and all around is very low. - Ratio middle manager vs software engineer is almost 1:1. As a software engineer, if you are motivated and prove to deliver on time expect to be treated like a minion and be assigned around from team to team to extinguish fires and get more pressure on you. If you don't deliver nothing will happen.

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