Just like you've heard
Just like you've heard
- FAANG pay (not the best though)
- Excellent tooling
- Potential to work on interesting things
- Keeps trying to pretend it's still a startup and managing like people are there for anything but the money.
- You probably won't work on interesting things.
- Difficult to get promoted and move up.
- Unless you consistently get top 5% reviews, your pay will quickly become peanuts.
- Typical clueless obsession with AI from upper management.
It hasn't been day 1 for a long, long time. AI is not going to save you. Offshoring won't go any better today than it did in the 90s.
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