ASML

World company with the opportunity of getting in touch with different people. Knowledge-sharing culture, opportunity of switching different roles. Stable to stay – almost never any layoffs.

No space for technical experts, flat management, and no healthy tech levels. Newbies led the experienced guys everywhere. A lot of old seniors with no technical competence. No respect for technical invention; everybody takes other people's work for granted under the cover of knowledge sharing. The architect is everything and takes everything on the tech side. Everybody wants to become an architect. Project Leads (PLs) do not have technical competency (knew nothing about the product other than Microsoft Project and PPT). Group Leads (GLs) do not have technical competency but just play politics under the cover of helping team members grow. They always promote newbies or provide promotion opportunities by hiring from outside. They promote or downgrade people based on what they said or reported, other than what they did or performed.

Get hold of the people to take responsibility. If something was wrong, find out the root causes. Do not reward those people who made wrong and then fixed them. Respect experts and their special contributions. Do not assume an expert can be replaced by any newbies.

Remove "professional" GLs. A GL should be able to step down. If a GL loses their technical competency, downgrade them.