- the absolute worst middle-management that i have ever seen.
- The amount of politics that happens at the middle management level on the Tech side of the company, is honestly mind-boggling. Most do not care about what they are building and are too happy to just pick up a pay-check.
- things that should take 2-4 weeks to build-test-deploy, took 8-12 months to implement, due to software architects acting as gatekeepers, who have limited knowledge of software/system design and architecture, due to their limited exposures to tech outside the company. Most of them spent their entire lives there and Riverty (formerly Arvato Financial Services) was their first job.
- no prospect of either horizontally or vertically career movement in the corporate/tech ladder due to middle management being very comfortable where they are, despite severely underperfoming. There are no roles beyond Software Architect, if one wants to continue in tech without moving into management.
- Hikes and promotions were an uphill battle, even if you outperformed everyone else.
In the past few years, quite a few of the good senior/architect level devs who were qualified to take the company forward have jumped ship and moved onto companies where their skills will be better valued.