Decent salary but tough promotion and long hours
Decent salary but tough promotion and long hours
- Decent salary.
- Free catering.
- High ownership of features and projects.
- Possible exposure to many different technologies.
- Colleagues who are talented and helpful.
- It can be hard to promote.
- There are long working hours, depending on the team.
- There is no WFH, which depends on the organization and team.
- Performance reviews are getting strict recently. You can get PIPed (laid off) for slightly underperforming or production issues.
- Some teams can be very business-oriented, and you do not learn much technically.
- There is tech debt, a messy code base, bad coding standards, and poor design, which are team- and org-dependent.
- There are very unrealistic feature delivery timelines, forcing you to do overtime and work over the weekends.
- It can be bad pay per hour-wise due to excessive overtime.
- Meetings and docs are in Chinese. You don’t have to speak good Chinese, but if you don’t listen well, you can miss out on a lot of details. This makes your project a lot harder, as much time is needed for clarification and figuring things out.
- Mentorship might be limited due to team dynamics or how busy they are.
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