Drink the Kool-Aid
Drink the Kool-Aid
- RSUs are pretty good with the stock price.
- Ability to move around or move up in the company.
- Work with some of the smartest people you’ll encounter.
There’s a lot of “kool-aid” drinking at this company. They push their leadership principles every chance they get, but those same leadership principles are dropped at the first sight of inconvenience when something doesn’t work in their favor.
Also, be sure to come in at a higher salary because, if you do, promotion increases for base pay are a joke.
They need to be consistent in who they make a manager, because there are some who don’t have a clue of what’s going on.
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