worse than expected wlb
worse than expected wlb
The perks are really good. The people are nice. The dev tooling is really good.
Work-life balance can be bad depending on the team. Multiple teams can be working on the same product, which causes conflicting work. Some people can be hard to work with and lack sound technical decisions.
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