MassMutual ETX (Digital development) does not make money at all. A thin level of actual contributors (developers). Most managers are working remotely, which presents a certain level of disconnect between departments and conflicts with the actual role of being true manager. You could imagine the moral aspect of the situation when a contributor who needs to come at work every day and his manager who is working remotely. Not to mention that the ratio between management and contributors are disproportional. There is more managers /POs/ PMs/ Scrum Masters/ Team leads than developers. It seems like MM is not able (can not afford) to hire skilled developers due to salary arrangements/restrictions. Some skilled developers that was hired left MM shortly, as soon as they realized that they would loose skills by dealing with old technology and quite amateur colleagues/ managment. A direction toward moving ETX business to India and Romania shall be reconsidered if MM wants to survive. Many US companies already figure out the there is no ROI from having offshore workers, but let MM to figure out it on it's own.
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What a horrible thing to say. The amount of misogyny, racism, and classism in that comment is horrendous. This is why women don't want to work in tech. Too many mediocre developers who think they're hot sh-t and look down on anyone who isn't just like them. You work in insurance. If you were talented, you'd be working in FAANG.
It's true, there are too many admins and not enough developers to actually get any meaningful work done. Imagine you one of the very few semi-talented mid-career developers who end up at the company and your boss is a middle-aged woman from western Mass who has been here for decades and never wrote a line of code, probably started in the call center after one of her construction worker boyfriends got her pregnant. If you were any good why would you stay? There is no career at MM for tech workers, the ones here are mostly just H1B's trying to grift along with the hundreds of others to get on the gravy train. The company likes to pay cheap and you get what you pay for.