Smart people, exciting tech, terrible work-life balance
Smart people, exciting tech, terrible work-life balance
On many teams in R&D, you get to work with brilliant, dedicated peers on exciting, people-empowering technologies and products.
Most roles demand long hours (60+ hour weeks) and round-the-clock communication. The work/life balance sucks. Apple is a divorce factory.
If you want to see yourself as a progressive employer, you must fix the work/life balance problems you currently allow to fester on too many R&D teams. When so many R&D job postings say "must be able to thrive in a fast-paced, demanding environment," that's your employees warning job seekers that management doesn't care about this.
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