Interesting work and coworkers, but big company bureaucracy and politics
Interesting work and coworkers, but big company bureaucracy and politics
- Most of my work is interesting to me (even if not my dream job).
- Smart, skilled, and generally friendly coworkers.
- Good work/life balance in my niche.
- Lots of re-orgs lately lead to projects getting green light, red light, green light, red light.
- Fear that any day our team may be shut down and we are all laid off. This makes it hard to stay motivated.
- Everything AI gets funded and everything else must cut back.
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