The worst place you can be as a software engineer
The worst place you can be as a software engineer
Nice view of the city from the top floor of Warsaw Spire.
- No work-life balance at all.
- Never-ending calls and meetings you don't care about.
- Your boss doesn't care about technology at all. You may be working with a very old tech stack, and nobody cares about it.
- Your boss will be from India, the US, or the UK, not Poland. The bottom line is that you will not be promoted to a significant managerial position unless you relocate there.
- Warsaw is just a back office. Forget about the most interesting projects carried out in the company.
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