Management from North America can be very toxic
Management from North America can be very toxic
In my experience, working for an EU-based team leads to much better visibility, project opportunities, and work culture.
I'm transferring to an Amazon EU-based organization now and am super happy to go back to a more positive and healthy work environment.
Watch out for promises of working in a "world wide team"!
As soon as my organization switched to "world wide," it became managed by North American leadership, which was extremely toxic.
- They don't respect EU working hours, and you will work super late.
- They don't respect EU projects and will always go with the North American tool or solution, even rebuilding from scratch rather than considering an EU solution.
- They were insanely frugal, even refusing to pay for us to get AWS certified.
Just watch out because in interviews, they sell the worldwide orgs as having a greater impact and better visibility, but I have experienced quite the opposite.
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