To every employee that endured the toxic work culture at Schwab, circular, unproductive meetings, meaningless tasks, redlined deliverables, Director micromanagement, bullying, and overall low morale, where others take credit for your work and perpetrators inconsistently meet the actual workers expectations I encourage you to walk away, stay clear of this organization and file complaints with the EEOC! Did you know Schwab has ppt. Slides tracking claims against the organization and Hostile Work Environment tops their list.
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I know a Scrum Master who became a Software Engineering Manager and Now is a Director. This clown has no idea and is always asking d-mb questions in useless hour long meetings. Now he's playing regional politics in his team among Indians promoting ones that speak his language. Crazy Times.
The sts mo--n leader Dennis thinks scaled agile will make execution faster
Agile is not relevant in an Ai world
Scrum master and architect roles are scams in sts
@17a Same issue with project managers and facilitators and anyone else put into a role where they are simply a schedule maintainer.
The good news is AI will make the experience worse. In the meantime, play with the scrum master. Not to be mean to them as they have no power. But to manage them. Just like you manage your manager.
@165 This is irrelevant to the topic and just a rant, but our scrum master pi---s me the fu-k off.
They have no technical knowledge and so it's not really even worth explaining to them what I'm working on. I've explained, for example, that I ran into a wall and had to open up a ticket with a separate team to move forward with a problem and that I'm not sure if this story will complete at the end of the sprint. Then, they'll reply "So, do you think you'll have this done by Thursday (our sprint end)?" AND THE WORST THING THEY DO is add issues to epics/sprints by individually clicking into the issue and changing it by pressing the edit button. JUST DRAG AND DROP IT, UGH.
They don't listen, have no technical knowledge of what we work on, and as a consequence our team ends up doing 90% of the Scrum work and they'll just lead the meetings. It's very frustrating. I've expressed my disatisfaction with my manager and so far crickets. I feel like ba----g my head against the wall every sprint meeting we have. And the good Lord has to give me strength during PI Planning calls because I need the patient of St. Peter.
I've seen scrum masters who haven't written a single line of code become engineering managers WTF! Lot of un-worthy and un-deserved promotions in STS. This place is crazy.
I'm guessing the poster is an underperformer on a coaching memo reading through the lines.
EEOC and submitting to HR should be useful and drive to action. Unfortunately, the quantity of employees throwing in bogus complaints to cover their own a$$ destroys the system and makes it impossible to sift through the garbage.
Get with it... Dona good job or leave... If you have a real complaint with facts, file it. When multiple build up on a leader change happens.
@OP they are creating the toxic environment purposefully so that USA employees quit and they can increase the headcount in India cheaper. If USA employee quits no problem, nobody will question why job is going to offshore. But the question id will the employee in India understand Schwab business, The Rules and regulations of this industry ? Ultimate impact would be on Schwab, Schwab reputation will shrink over the years and eventually collapse
Yes, we are toxic. No, the EEOC isn't going to act on toxicity complaints. EEOC is a shadow of its former self. And it never acted on toxicity.
The best things to do? Leave. Quiet quit. Malicious compliance. The bonuses aren't worth fighting for exceeds. The promotion path is quite removed from individual work.
If you think you have an EEOC action, please refer to their web site. In general you need to be part of a protected class including race, age and s-x.
https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/discrimination
@OP yes absolutely toxic environment, technical managers and directors have no idea how technology works and they waste time asking questions, creating unnecessary pressure to get things done faster and causing production issues. Then again discussing about how to avoid prod issues and circle continues. Technical managers and directors are more scared about their own job and scapegoating actual implementors laid off. If Schwab continues this TOXIC work environment for longer it is surely going to backfire