Most everything else.
Management interferes way too much with development. It's extremely difficult to meet deadlines when being interrupted several times a day about development progress. This is arguably a negative, but at my current job, we are trusted to develop and are checked on on a weekly basis. Understanding requirements was also a nightmare as they would become misunderstood, confused, or otherwise lost due to prevention of direct communication with clients.
Advice from junior developers was hardly ever taken. For example, had tried to incorporate both versioning control and unit/e2e testing which were both denied UNTIL situations arose that would not have been as dire if we used these technologies. Burden of proof lay heavily on junior developers to prove why a certain new (and I mean new to them) technology should be used instead of trusting the developers to know what's current in their field.
To add to that, jQuery is currently the new hotness there, even when there are much more efficient ways of DOM manipulation in 2016.
Lack of true growth opportunities. Not only in the sense you can't move to new positions, but being able to grow your skills to stay competitive in such a fast-paced field. Most tasks will never be more than changing a few colors here or there or making another report/email template. With ever-growing demands from employers, you can't improve your resume by doing such simple tasks weeks on end.
Introvert nightmare. If you aren't the type to spend every lunch with your team, get ready to hear complaints about that every day.
Very, and i mean VERY unprofessional management. As an example, we spent a company meeting browsing through a previous employee's facebook while someone on the management team made fun of them for being a lesbian. Personally was extremely offended, but that seems to be the mentality of Texas.
Long story short, this isn't a place where a developer that has a goal of using fresh technologies and that would like to grow in a healthy environment should work. San Antonio's tech scene is growing with the advent of coding bootcamps and there will be a lot more places to work that encourage new tech and don't cling to the past just because they're ignorant of current development patterns and refuse to do the research themselves.
