WeddingWire Reviews

- culture has deteriorated heavily in last year - awful/incompetent senior management - many poor promotions and mis-hires in recent times - perks have been scaled back heavily (used to be free lunch for the entire last week of the month, free snacks from nature box, monthly company-paid happy hours etc.) - work/life balance is very erratic; some teams have 40 hour weeks others will regularly put in 50-60+ and there's no recognition or compensation for it - diva personalities - marketing-driven development - developers are code-monkeys with little to no input in products When I joined, this was probably the best company to work for in the DC area; yearly dev trips (all expenses paid) to Vegas and then Bahamas. A cornucopia of free lunches and happy hours, free snacks from NatureBox, reasonable hours and fun work with smart people. Developers also had a good deal of input and say in the product and the process before. This year our dev trip is Philadelphia : / I could drive there on the weekend but I don't because it's Philadelphia and I don't want to be there. All the perks that used to exist are slowly being scaled back and eliminated. Morale is at an all-time low. Recently, things have been taking a turn for the worse. Senior management and C-levels have been pushing a poorly executed shift to agile and a new 'pillar' structure and it has been a colossal failure. What was once a scrappy, lean team has turned into a nightmarish bureaucracy of middle-management where busybodies create hoops for people to jump through to deter any actual work getting done. All of this has also led to a toxic influx of office politics. Several diva personalities exist and senior management has their favorites. Cross one of them even accidentally and you can be sure that your name will get dragged through the mud behind your back while they smile and joke to your face. Overall stress is at an all-time high but compensation is low with wide disparities between engineers. If you do end up joining, make sure you negotiate before you join because your salary isn't going to jump much and they will lowball you if they can get away with it. A good 25% of the dev team has left due to poor compensation just this year.

The biggest problem here is the management. It seems like only popular people get any promotions and if they don't like you it's very apparent and they will make your life difficult. The hardest working people are often taken advantage of and then tossed aside and set up to fail and are given no opportunity to grow. If you get on the bad side of any of the managers count your promotion potential to be sabotaged. I've seen people who are not fit to manage get promoted and subsequently fired. While hard workers are not given any recognition. On top of that the trend lately is to reduce transparency and keep much of the team in the dark. There is also a problem where some managers have less experience then the people they manage, which causes some of them to remind them of their place. The worst thing is the amount of favoritism displayed towards some employees and not others. Like a manager will celebrate some subordinates birthdays and not others,those same subordinates also have preferential treatment towards task despite having more capable people on the team. There is also a problem with how certain people are held to higher standards then others which causes unfair assessments and reviews and the bais is clear. When employees report this to HR often times they end up being punished for defending themselves. Managers are also highly inconsistent with requests and often times not communicate in a timely manner and then nit pick and hold what you've done against you. Working here has deteriorated my mental health since the favoritism is not even attempted to be hidden. The constant negative feedback and lack of recognition has made me clinically depressed. On a daily basis I pray that the managers will just not show up or quit because that seems to be the only way to move up or have a decent day. Also everything falls on death ears, managers pretend to listen and then do nothing about the complaints. At the end of the day their group is unaffected by our mental health and anything to make sure that they appear as the ones that pushed the team to release a good product and forgetting to actually acknowledge who did things. I'm also not the only one I know of various employees whose mental health has deteriorated and are on anti depression medication because of this. This job should be a dream, but only if you fall into the right crowd. I would stay away if you value your mental health.