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• Any personality can succeed; you just need to find the right manager.
• The LEAP program encourages excellence and curiosity.
• Stable.

• 90% idiots: people who refuse to read documentation, take responsibility, or contribute ideas (these people exist at every level)
• Some of the worst code I have ever seen
• Some really bad managers (focused on appearances rather than deliverables, not able to work with other leadership, etc.)
• One of every two weeks must be in the office
• Largely hire white & Indian men despite so much talk about diversity.
• Other than diversity, there are many other forms of hypocrisy. One of our core values is "being data driven," but the RTO approach was not data driven at all (and failed to account for office capacity, which was a very basic number they should have known).
• Compensation is famously low compared to other places.

When hiring and promoting developers, prioritize ownership and investigative skills rather than... whatever we're doing right now. When a full-grown man tells you 100 words of clear, bullet-pointed instructions is difficult to read, we have a problem.