Pros
- Actively working towards a future tech stack in AWS, and lofty goals for small to medium sized growth. - Engineering Managers are technically very smart and often take on-call responsibility for the team - Financial backing from Volkswagon - CEO clearly letting us know that money is not an issue for anything that will help us be successful - Pay is above average for Vancouver - Flexible work/life balance - Fairly good development best practices - Great brand, worldwide footprint - Politics are surprisingly not too much of an issue
Kontras
- Monolithic Oracle Database :( blocking a lot of - Lack of deliberate mentorship/coaching - Too much information in the hands of few - Generally understaffed (mainly because of the lacklustre talent pool in Vancouver) - Apathy towards proactively fixing issues with a sense of urgency, can be elitist at times - Extreme administrative overhead (things take a long time to complete) due to non-scalable architecture, reliance on tribal knowledge, little or no documentation and process. - Communication in general is poor