Great Pay, Terrible Politics
Great Pay, Terrible Politics
Great internal tools.
Pay is great.
Other companies will want to pay you lots of money if you worked here because they think it means something.
Supply and demand applies. Everyone's very talented, so the ability to achieve is worthless. Those who excel are those who monopolize and hoard scarcer resources (approvals, visibility). Office politics is 90% of the job.
Fix the onboarding. I feel like there's a conspiracy of the old timers against the new. Constant turnover hides this fact.
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