Fanatics

There are good opportunities to work with AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT, but there is no time or scope for actual personal technical upskilling. Ultimately, this comes at the direct cost of sacrificing your personal life, getting crushed by inefficient higher management, and dealing with weird, frustrating HR policies.

They promise you fancy RSUs that you can never actually get. Unless the company goes public, they are absolutely worthless, which won't happen because going public isn't even their actual goal.

They also ruined our work-life balance under the excuse of "statutory compliance". They scrapped our flexible DTO and brought in a highly restrictive leave policy.

Deliberately reducing our flexibility like this is absurd when we have cross-timezone teams and late-night US meetings are expected.

The sick leave policy is a joke, giving just one day a month, as if people plan when they fall sick.

Tech higher management throw around vague ideas with only one philosophy: build fast with AI. Instead of building things properly, they rush terrible work out the door and leave developers to spend a lot of time fixing bugs. Every stupid policy change they make to cut perks is justified as an "industry standard." Yet, they conveniently have sudden memory loss about industry standards when it comes to giving fair salary hikes to employees.

Stop using statutory compliance as a cover for hostile, micromanaged policies. If you are going to use "industry standards" to cut flexibility, apply those same standards to employee salary hikes. Be transparent with candidates about the real value of your RSUs. Balance the rapid AI development push with actual engineering standards, and restore the flexibility needed for cross-timezone work before all your capable employees leave.