Fast-paced, high salary, not always nice
Fast-paced, high salary, not always nice
Rock-solid core business. Exceptional growth and cool projects all around. Good middle management and excellent senior/top management. Smart SDEs all around.
On-call system.
SDEs are asked to carry the pager in an on-call rotation. Depending on the team, your experience can be OK or truly a nightmare. Nightly calls if you work with an Indian team and live in Seattle.
Scrum is heavily adopted, keeping the pace very high and intense. Projects sometimes are more workarounds than fully designed solutions, as there is no time to focus on the solution. Scrum makes the due date your enemy.
Keep listening, SDEs, for new ideas, as you are already doing. Move away from the on-call stuff. Hire support engineers and make the SDEs happy. Free lunch would be a nice perk.
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