Grab

potentially high impact and opportunity to work with talented engineers

politics here and there especially after layoff in 2023 where the managers in higher costs region like SG hold back much more resources and tends to edge engineers in lower cost region like ID, MY, VN. Doing it in a very obvious way to prevent giving impactful opportunities to engineers resided in those area while keeping influence at his/her hand while also not giving too much career support to those engineers.

work life balance is terrible for certain teams where manages do not evaluate the bandwidth of the teams and always assume the team members could overtime and tends to pleasuring the upper management while giving absurdly intense pressure on ICs