Ask HN: How to hire when your company and Glassdoor reviews are genuinely bad?
The company I&#x27;m working for right now is genuinely bad. They started 10+ years ago as a small software vendor and they&#x27;ve kept their engineering practices since that time.<p>There is no agile, no source control, no meetings, no discussions about projects, nobody heard of automated code testing.<p>Since we are profitable (because the in-house IT of our clients is even worse), we decided to use that money to branch into an AI startup but they have been unable to hire anyone but one person in the last 6 months.<p>However, we do have trouble hiring developers because 1) Glassdoor reviews are bad 2) compensation is small 3) work is frustrating 4) you don&#x27;t learn anything from colleagues, unless you learn it yourself and push others to follow suit.<p>I am about to leave the company (which was my first developer job) and I want to give advice to the management at my exit interview on what they should be doing to hire the people they want.