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Pressure to write code that converts.

Distance between programmers and the management that evaluates your performance is really big, which causes severe communication problems.

Inconsistency in performance evaluations, where team leaders do not always respect what is asked of your role and make arbitrary decisions.

HR encourages you to talk with them to review performance evaluations, but they will not listen to you and will repeat whatever they heard from team leaders.

Developers that are not capable of being team leaders are being promoted as such, when they just don't know how to deal with people and treat you like coding robots.

Politics games with clear, unprepared favorites.

You need to show off your job or you will never be recognized.

Micromanagement.

The tech stack is at least 10 years old. I did not learn anything new in my area.

Perl.

Stay true to what you advertise in the training about the flat organization and transparent feedback culture, because it's not the case.