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It’s a very, very easy job.

There are a lot of hidden benefits, like working from home and high PTO.

Laid-back office life.

You’ll get dank karma on Reddit with all the free time you spend there at work.

Feels slow-paced. You’ll feel like you’re making 10-20% less salary than other firms in the field. Depending on your department, you’ll work on old tech (software developer working with C98 standard and Python 2.6). It leads you to have to redefine the wheel often. Standard 3% raises if you’re lucky. It takes your bosses a while to dole out new work. You’ll constantly find your two-week sprints have two projects that will take you a maximum of one week to finish. Some days you reach the bottom of Reddit and feel like you’re in high school detention. On-the-job experience of the systems you work on is given out painfully slow. Three years in, and I’m finally understanding how the system works.

Pay more.

Pay more.

Pay more.

Give better on-the-job training to spool up new employees faster.