#WorkplaceNightmares #BadCompany #CompanyCultureGoneWrong
For those of you who aren’t afraid to name and shame, here are some examples of the worst companies to work for:
🚫 Jungle company may top the list, but there are other companies out there that are just as awful, if not worse. From poor management to toxic work environments, these companies have gained a reputation for all the wrong reasons. Let’s dive into some examples of companies that have truly missed the mark when it comes to creating a positive workplace culture.
## Toxic Work Culture: A Recipe for Disaster
Working in a toxic work environment can have a detrimental impact on your mental and physical well-being. Here are some signs that you may be working for a company with a toxic culture:
– High turnover rates: If employees are constantly leaving the company, it could be a red flag that something is not right.
– Micromanagement: Constantly being watched and monitored can create a sense of stress and unease among employees.
– Lack of communication: When there is a lack of open and transparent communication within a company, rumors and misinformation can spread quickly.
– Bullying and harassment: No employee should ever have to endure bullying or harassment in the workplace.
### Examples of Companies with Toxic Cultures
1. XYZ Inc.: Employees at XYZ Inc. have reported feeling micromanaged and undervalued. The high turnover rate at the company is a clear indication that something is amiss.
2. ABC Corp.: ABC Corp. has made headlines for its toxic work culture, which includes bullying and harassment. Employees have shared stories of feeling belittled and disrespected by their superiors.
## Poor Management: A Recipe for Disaster
Having ineffective and incompetent management can lead to chaos within a company. Here are some signs that you may be working for a company with poor management:
– Lack of leadership: When there is a lack of clear direction and vision from upper management, it can be difficult for employees to know what is expected of them.
– Favoritism: When promotions and opportunities are reserved for a select few, it can create resentment and animosity among employees.
– Ignoring employee feedback: When management does not take the time to listen to and address employee concerns, it can lead to a disconnect between management and staff.
### Examples of Companies with Poor Management
1. DEF Co.: DEF Co. has a reputation for promoting based on favoritism rather than merit. This has led to a sense of disillusionment among employees who feel that their hard work goes unrecognized.
2. GHI Ltd.: GHI Ltd. has been criticized for ignoring employee feedback and failing to address issues within the company. This lack of communication has created a rift between management and staff.
## Conclusion
In conclusion, there are companies out there that have failed to create a positive and inclusive work environment for their employees. From toxic work cultures to poor management practices, these companies have earned a reputation for all the wrong reasons. It is important to speak up and share your experiences in order to shed light on these issues and hold companies accountable for their actions. Next time you consider accepting a job offer, make sure to do your research and ask the right questions to ensure that you are joining a company that values its employees and fosters a healthy workplace culture. Remember, you deserve to work for a company that appreciates and respects you.
Foodtronix. I made minimum wage at 17 doing tech support for this small business that sold point of sale machines.
It was so small they decided to save money and illegally work out of a couple of apartment units.
The boss constantly would come into our room just to fart or make sexual comments about the teenage girls walking home from school that could be seen from the windows.
As a condition of employment he made us take shifts from 5 pm to 8 Am. And then he only paid us for 8 hours instead of the 15 we worked because “you got fewer calls during the night”.
And I had a weekly sunday shift from 8AM Sunday to 8 AM on monday. Which eventually turned into 8AM sunday to 5PM Monday.
Working these ungodly hours for minimum wage, getting paid for like half of what we worked, and having to deal with constant abuse from the owner’s wife was quite the first job experience.
My first year of college i was doing 70-80 hour weeks, getting paid for maybe 32 hours of the total worked, and completely fucking up my sleep schedule.
My dumbass kept working there because the boss was promising to teach me how to program and kept finding reasons to kick that can down the road.
Tara, wipro and all the foreign vendor companies
I’ve never met anyone who had nice things to say about working for Oracle.
Def not the worst but Github was a reorg nightmare. I had three bosses over a year and had probably the worst onboarding ever
Practically, every org that regarded Tech as a “cost”, primarily because their “business domain” was something else and not Tech, rather than as a necessary investment that will eventually generate “revenue”.
I actually loved GDIT until I got fired for complaining about sexual harassment on the military base where I was working.
Tenable
Disorganization and toxic management
Target was terrible.
Opendoor
I worked for Hewlett-Packard under Carly Fiorina. HP, when I was hired, had the highest employee satisfaction ratings in the industry. It was an *awesome* place to work.
Fiorina was a vulture capitalist who made it abundantly clear that increasing profitability was her only goal. At one point she made employees an offer. If we’d all agree to a pay cut, there would be no layoffs. More than 75,000 of us agreed to the cuts, because the working conditions had been so great that most of us were willing to make a bit less to preserve them.
After implementing the voluntary cuts, Fiorina turned around and executed the largest layoffs in company history. Fuck her and fuck that company.
During my career, I’ve worked at several shitty little startups that did shitty things because they were run by people who had no idea what they were doing. HP was worse because they *did* know, and they did it anyway.
General Motors the worst company for any software engineer my god
The problem with this question is a lot of the large companies have really good and really bad teams. Most of this depends upon getting on a good team. A good team will make even a bad company fun.
AT&T
Fucking jackoffs.
Drivercheck
RMG networks.
Cisco.
Wayfair. Folks crying at their desks from pressure
Google for the people, but great benefits.
Samsung overall was dogshit and I recommend avoiding them at all costs: no matter who you are, you can do better.
The federal government! Honestly, I don’t know how they have a working network.
Farmers Insurance. I had four supervisors in one year, got pulled off one project and put on another, explained what I was leaving behind, guy in charge of the takeover quit two days after I was transfered, so stuff got lost, but I was held accountable for it. My last supervisor was also such an abusive individual I quit without anything else lined up. I was so fed up with them that after more than a decade and a half I won’t even do business with them. I actually made it clear to the agent that called me when I bought my house that I would under no circumstances ever take a policy with them and to never ever reach out to me again and to put me on a don’t contact list.
I made a burner for this but the burner wasn’t allowed to comment so I’ll just post here:
HCL. I was hired as an “android developer” straight out of college and I had to do an interview relating to Android development. It ended up being “manual testing” sort of like quality assurance I guess? It was literally testing things manually and creating reports. It was terrible. My offer letter said Software Engineer. And within the company I was labeled as that.
I moved 8 hours away for that job because it was the first one I found after a year of searching. I moved without anything in the bank, and I stayed with a friend for a few months (3 hours away, so 11 hours from my family) and would drive there and stay in motels until they wanted us to come to work every day of the week, so I had to get a lease nearby to work there (thank goodness I could finally afford a place). I had practically zero career growth, no raises, and the office culture was weird; it was like a library there.
I didn’t learn many useful things, it was very disorganized. It was weird because 90% of my coworkers were on visas. Some of them didn’t even know any tech jargon. I even found one of their resumes and it showed that they were a nurse from Ukraine years ago but I guess they could’ve made a career switch?
Anyway. I got laid off due to “budget cuts” from our client company. I’m kind of stuck because my dumbass didn’t work on enough side projects on my own, and I haven’t kept up to date with my skills, so I have to push myself harder to get a job in the position that I want. It was so shit. I’m not even sure how to list it on my resume, and if I do, I feel like people would ignore my resume.
So yeah, although they basically misrepresented the position that I interviewed for. I also f*cked up by not keeping my skills relevant on my own time so now I’m kicking myself over it.
Infosys. Death by feeling in timesheets on web pages from the 90s
Any company where the management is Asian but not Western born/educated. As a Korean we have a saying here: do not work for a Korean who moved to the US. They usually have the worst of both worlds.
Comcast, specifically the Universal Studios portion of NBC Universal. Most mismanaged theme park known to mankind. So incompetent that they had to bring in Lockheed Martin down the street to fix their shit.
I worked for a federal contractor (literal no name, you will never find out who it is) and I got fired because I didn’t say “good morning” in my message to one of the PMs when I was working overtime at 7pm trying to figure out better crosstraining practices. They later got fired for starting other shit with the CEO, which got him in trouble as well. That project lost over half the team when they fired me because I drove a lot of our actual communications and scope with the client to a good place, and didn’t bullshit around or lie to make them happy. The night before I was fired, I was up til 4am figuring out some obscure library issues while upgrading React and Next and I found like 8 security violations that I know are still on the site today, which is extra fun since it’s DoD.
Anyone with the 996 culture
I worked at Wells Fargo as a contractor for two years. So while I was at the end of my two week vacation, they told me my contract ended. I didn’t get to see my desk or my coworkers or anyone and say goodbye. Fuck Wells Fargo.
I didn’t end up working there but Walgreens pretty much wasted a month of my life and their team seemed to be imploding during the hiring process.
Apparently during layoffs last year, some of their arrogant leadership decided they could use the talent surplus to aggressively demand an RTO.
Only problem was, all the people in interviews were continuing under the impression of being remote. Walgreens doesn’t have an office in a good location. Their best area is MAYBE Chicago or Portland but nothing in California.
A lot of engineers who were already in the offer stage found out they weren’t getting a remote offer and would only get an offer if they agreed to relocate. And like 90% of the people who conducted the interviews for Walgreens didn’t live near any of their hubs, and apparently they weren’t told that there’d be an RTO. Imagine their confusion when me and multiple candidates asked them, “so you’re going to relocate to Chicago or something?”
A few of their engineers actually contacted ME after they rescinded my offer when I told them I wouldn’t quit my remote job for them.
I worked for Ford for about 2 weeks doing IT work in the Bay Area. The IT Manager and the other tech I worked with would bitch non-stop about how the software engineers were in for a reckoning cause they expected to treat Ford like a startup. I’m not really sure why they were so irritated.
Needless to say it was fucking awful. Such a weird dichotomy of people with sticks up their asses from Detroit and software engineers from the Bay.
Got my ass out of there with a quickness.
My current company, Unicorn. Which nobody here knows since it’s a Czech company, with some branches outside of Czechia.
They underpay, developers are not respected, custom company solution/framework for everything is mandatory, including git which has no UI, and yes no UI for PR either. We are always stuck on some company framework bs, which is hard to find documentation for, because yes, even the documentation is a custom tool.
I worked in Oracle/NetSuite, and Unicorn is way worse.
Cherry on top is that even our top management can’t learn proper English, when presenting in kickoffs.
Looking for a way out, but no luck yet.
I guess it goes without saying
Pip-azon
Activision Blizzard under Bobby Kotick
Home Depot without a doubt. Expected me to be on team pace within 2 days, constantly on me that I’m not on the same velocity without any training or help because the other devs were busy as well, then when my wife got sick and had to go to the hospital on week 3 and I missed a day they fired me. But they didn’t tell me, they locked me out of my accounts after work hours and made the external hiring recruiter call me the next day.
Lockheed Martin by far. To be fair though, it wasn’t so much the company as it was the program that I was assigned to. Working from 8 – 7pm was common. 15+ hour days when doing installations to other sites. Everything was so mismanaged, there were so many cliques between the System Engineers, Software, Network guys, etc. Nothing actually worked. I also got yelled at by my tech lead a fair share of times 🙂
I worked at a small company in Boston called mediasilo
They would fire people without warning, totally erratically, if they even said one thing wrong. This also caused people to try to get ahead of this by finding a new job. After those people left for a new job, they’d get a text like “we didn’t need you anyway and the company is better without you”
I also remembered one day I came in and the lead engineer said “I think we’re gonna get sued”, I asked why and he showed me the design. I was like “what’s wrong with it?”, he pulled up the competitors site and many things were a 1:1 copy
Disney is internally a dystopian racist hell hole. They rinse and recycle contractors onshore and offshore, and treat neither class of workers well. Offshore tends to comprise most of their workforce and they are paid and treated like dogshit. Most leadership would murder their lowest performer’s first born for a chance at breathing the same air as big bob at the top. Also, their progressive stances are mostly fake posturing. Most of the execs are far right conservatives that play along and laugh about it after work. The average “cast member” (what they call FTE) are brainwashed and cultish. The cult of disney is the worst part- they close their eyes and smile to show their belief in magic while the office floors around them burn
Capital One, easily. They use their “stack ranking” system to cut people, and they will modify all the rules to make it happen at any time, even retroactively (bell curve percentages, performance metrics, too-new-to-rate cutoff dates, PiP vs CP outcome etc.). Actually, it’s not even “proper” stack ranking at this point; performance is barely involved and the rules are fluid; there is no proper system to follow as an employee (as if “proper” stack ranking wasnt bad enough already). You can be set up to fail just by picking the wrong date to join the company because of the “performance” cycle timing. You will get severance, but on paper, you’re the one at fault, you’re the one who didn’t measure up to company standards.
Yet they are labeled as “Best Place to Work” and all that. Recruiters will brag about the company not having layoffs and being stable. When I inquired about stack ranking to the recruiter during the hiring process, they were dismissive claiming that stack ranking wasn’t an issue. Be aware of this if applying.
Infosys. The internship was amazing. Then it flipped on its head when I joined as a permanent employee. I automated a process that’d save at least 10 hours a day. Was surprised why it wasn’t done before. Management shot it down. Then called me at 4 am to say something has failed. Which my script would have picked up and reran.
Oh and I’d broken my leg on a Sunday. Guess what my team lead said on call when I informed him? Today is Sunday. Take tomorrow off. I’ll see you on Tuesday. Yes. I dropped my resignation on Tuesday lol