Indeed reviews

It is hard to understand why people are Indeed-lifers for a newcomer. In my 7+ years as a PM I have been most unhappy here. People were fine, though culture is not much to write home about. This is a massive company operating soooo slowly. It takes months to get anything done. Folks seem to think scheduling, showing up to meetings and commenting on documents is work. Planning processes are non-existent, deadlines are CRITICAL and then they just move. I saw planning done for a 150+ person group with no plan, no meeting to kick it off, no working backward dates, no tasks really assigned, just 55 people in one document and frantic slacks in 4-5 different channels and then demands about why things weren't done. There is both a sense of urgency and no urgency at the same time. Everyone wants data-driven decisions, in-fact its a core company principal, yet data is constantly a mess and "unreliable". I hoped there was a ton of room to improve a fairly bare bones product. However, I now see that there is no innovative product-mindedness or UX-mindedness. All anyone cares about is if there was a Connection, regardless the shoddy experience. Also the review process is a massive time suck. It seems to be changing soon, but really just seems like a way to occupy people for 2-3 weeks since there is nothing else to actually get done. I want to coast like everyone else, but my time might be better spent exiting.

- Unorganized, outdated technologies (still using ant / still using Google Closure / Code quality is not evaluated) - Intransparent management (prevalent favoritism / no clue in how to improve engineering quality from the top) - Infamously intransparent HR's way of handling harassment cases - Short-sighted evaluation system (they only value immediate business impact, not engineering excellence) Some personal experience: - I got a bad evaluation because of my "too many comments" in code reviews. I raised concerns to my manager before making the many comments but he ordered me to add many comments to persuade the author. I just followed my manager's order, but I got a minus evaluation. My acting manager could not point out which specific comments were bad. He told me the number of comments was the only problem. He also asked me to remove a sentence from my self-eval, which went like "I thought it was OK to make many comments because I was told so by my manager." - When I sought help for HR for my acting manager's harassment because I was mentally exhausted, they told me that mental tolerance would differ from person to person so bringing in a doctor's diagnosis was meaningless. - The tech lead on my team (the same person as the above mentioned "my acting manager") stole the credit of my work by creating something that completely overlapped what I was doing. When I pointed that out, he repeatedly ignored my comments. When I reported his disrespectful behavior to HR, HR concluded that he was just hesitant to take communication with me. He didn't get any punishment, but I was sent to a boredom room (another company) by Recruit, Indeed's parent company. - I was supposed to get a good evaluation because of my high impact work, which I was told so by my manager; however, Recruit determined that the impact of my work was zero, while another colleague who had less contribution than me got a plus for the same work. As a result, I received the worst evaluation (which is called "Below"). - Recruit told me that I didn't have "respect" for others because I made too many comments in a code review and that I reported my former acting manager's ignorance.