Good work-life balance and people; bad in most other fields
Good work-life balance and people; bad in most other fields
The people there are generally young and very friendly. I encountered one unpleasant director in two years. The work-life balance is really amazing. There are some periods of crunch time, and you can take on a lot of responsibility, but generally it’s quite chill. The unlimited PTO is fantastic, and a lot of people abuse it. My manager was on about 40 days off in a year. Most people take between 28 and 35.
Unless you land on one of the ML or compute teams, the tech is really old with an atrocious CI/CD pipeline. The pay and bonuses definitely can be better, and there’s a sense that most associates stick around just for the unlimited PTO.
Management can be clueless about human resource allocation, randomly shifting or outsourcing jobs, only to change their mind three weeks later.
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