I'm a software engineer and previously worked for a company that had a really strong engineering team.
But then the company went the cheap route, things got horrible, everyone – except my friend left. We watched their mental state go down. They finally hit a breaking point and left a couple of days ago and I'm super stoked for them.
Basically, what happened is our company kept making promises, more engineers, more help, more money, more resources. Instead, they kept none of the promises. They hired a team of contractors which went poorly, a couple of them were stellar, but some just literally did nothing.
We were all working for roughly 20% under market value, and when the broken promises started getting bad, engineers started leaving. First the director, then senior engineers, then everyone.
Before I left I said essentially “hey, I'd like market average, here is what it is from 10 different sources.” I was told basically I was lucky to have a job, lucky they hired me, and I'd never get market average. I said “lets literally test this theory.” Within 3 weeks I was 15% over. Yay.
But my friend stayed, while all of the engineers left. They were the last one there. And suddenly EVERYTHING was getting blamed on them. It was bullshit and they were having a horrible time.
And they finally left! Thank God!
They saved up some $ in order to take some time off and for now they're streaming on Twitch. If that's your thing and you wanna help them out EllSeni – Twitch .
I honestly hope the company does well and learns from their mistakes, but who knows if that will happen.