The tech stack is horrible. Everything is rolled your own in a monolith that does not scale for the cloud. We cannot decide if we want to have our software in the cloud or on premise and we decide to cobble the software to try accommodate both approaches without adopting off the shelf solutions. Your technical skills will not grow.
No matter how hard you work to do your job and provide suggestions to elevate engineering, if you do not know the CEO, CTO, Chief Engineer or friend's with an engineer who has that relationship, you will have a hard time being promoted in the engineering department. It's difficult to climb the career ladder.
The longer you stay as an engineer and play an important role, the more likely you are expected to be On Call and trying to figure out an area of the product that you had minimal knowledge in to fix an issue. Besides being extremely siloed within the engineering team, this area may not be related to anything you've had to handle before but expected to pick up because that engineer left the company.
Calabrio's senior management behavior is atrocious:
While highlighting the shift of contact centers that are adapting to work from home and beaming how Calabrio is meeting their needs, the CEO is cheer leading an effort pushing people back into the office during COVID-19. For example, instead of highlighting that 67% do not want to return to the office, he is touting of getting the 33% back into the office as soon as possible. He should be concerned about the health and emphasizing 67% want us to stay safe by not spreading the disease.
An extremely high ranking male used his position to initiate and engage in an inappropriate intimate relationship with a female employee. The female employee no longer works here. Even though this is not any of my business, it makes me uncomfortable noticing this non professional relationship unfold and knowing you cannot do anything about it. HR probably knows about it but you can tell they are powerless here. I don't know (and don't want to know) if his behavior extends beyond this one female employee. It makes me uncomfortable to this day to have watched this unfold.
