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You will work with smart coworkers on a product that helps people. It can be a good career stepping stone to something better. The company is doing well and will likely IPO soon.

It is an incredibly toxic and political environment. You will either be worked to death or bored with nothing to do. You will spend more time arguing about tickets, process, and agile than you do implementing features or fixing bugs - spring process are mandated top-down.

Gabe treats RnD like his own personal playground for learning management. He picks favorites and ruins anyone or anything he doesn't like. You will likely be underpaid and underappreciated.

Relax the Sprint requirements.

Everyone is just sandbagging so that they don't miss a Sprint and are seen as a "problem" team.

Get Gabe out of RnD.

He creates a bunch of busy work for whichever team he's focused on.

A large part of senior management's job is just managing him.

He burns money and time.