Snacks and smart people overshadowed by politics and pressure
Snacks and smart people overshadowed by politics and pressure
- Snacks
- Lunches
- Smart people and good engineers
- Lots of opportunities to learn
- It is a highly political organisation with middle management.
- Everything is measured to the point of decision hesitancy and fake estimated numbers.
- There is high pressure and a lot of overtime to hit deadlines.
- Switching teams internally is a nightmare.
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