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Startup Work, Big Company Bureaucracy

Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Grab for 1 year
August 26, 2018
Seattle, Washington
2.0
Pros

Good place to help Southeast Asia with traffic.

Cons

Company wants people to work like a startup with no money, but then has all the bureaucracy of a big, old American company. Projects take forever, and internal development is very often blocked because servers are broken. Every feature takes many times too long because teams do not communicate and write features together.

Seattle office has long hours. You have to work normal hours and then work many hours in the evening to talk to Singapore for good career. If not, decisions are made without you, and you have to redo work.

Seattle leadership only says "yes right" or "we will see." They never listen to feedback or make changes.

Office is not diverse. Look around when you interview. Nobody talks to others in the office, and it feels very isolated outside of the team.

Advice to Management

Make things faster by improving code and not working more hours.

Make code better, not add new features first.

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