HERE Technologies reviews

Most of the smart and talented colleagues have left the company or are leaving soon. The highly paid but not proportionally talented or first jobers have a good reason to stay. Higher and middle management are terrible in the Automotive group. Director looks all the times at the bug curves or features count. Quantitative old mindset manager. He yells to fix bugs or build more features (depending on the phase of the project), middle managers care only about their golden careers and whip their people to please the top management. It feels like in the 80's. A bad company from the 80's. Promotions are political, who challenges the mid management gets punished, silos culture with kingdoms and incompetent line managers taking technical decisions and competing with each others (lots of duplicate and non-sense work). No real will to improve or become a modern, attractive company for smart talented people. Agile group is another silos ivory tower and there's now also a director of agile. Mostly they're using the Spotify labels maintaining the same structure... It's a very corrupted setup. Nothing is transparent and there are hundreds of meaningless KPIs, it's hard to understand if what you or your team is implementing is useful. Finally my salary was not competitive. I started in 2016, colleagues hired before me had significantly higher salaries. Management at all levels has the highest salary and benefits, huge gap with their direct reports. All the 5 offers I've got in a month of search (same city, similar role) were 20-50% higher. The HERE golden age is over (except for managers).

The company is very noticeably divided (and not only geographically) by the Atlantic. People are forming camps and trying to make themselves... important via... artificial means. Alongside the talented people, mentioned above, there are some completely clueless individuals. And the sad thing is they're not a rarity. And I very intentionally did not say "work here” as that would be... strongly inaccurate. Not to forget the ridiculous internal politics, hypocrisy and debilitating bureaucracy. It’s not unbearable if your skin is thick enough. You'll have a hard time if you are enthusiastic and career oriented. Opportunities are scarce, despite the number of open positions. It's not impossible but very difficult to progress. And keep in mind that ambition and desire for professional growth are hardly ever noticed. But if you wouldn’t mind a somewhat monotonous place to work, HERE could be the perfect fit for you!