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The work environment and culture is great. Atmosphere is mostly relaxed, but when push comes to shove people are prepared to go the extra mile. We've had great progress with our latest products. Compensation is good compared to local competition. Vacation and sabbatical are great benefits.

Product cycles are short, and the whole team is mostly occupied with the current or previous release in some way, which means features and changes that need longer commitment are not prioritized.

The overhead involved in product releases also contributes to this squeeze. We need to change something about how we work to allow for changes that require longer development. US and UK sites are closer to leadership and there is some hassle involved in ensuring compensation in Norway follows development there.

Uncouple more features from the product cycles, and free up more engineers from the release and review overhead.

Be careful about rewarding engineers in more remote sites fairly for the contributions that they make to sustain and develop the knowledge and experience.