Top folks are really great, but there's a lot of deadweight and politics
Top folks are really great, but there's a lot of deadweight and politics
Good pay when you factor in the EB. Though they've started to cap the EB percentage.
The top 10% are really smart; the next 15% are pretty good. If you can work in a group with these people, your mind will be engaged and you will learn a lot.
Pretty good benefits, but not quite on par with Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc.
Extremely good CPU architects.
The remaining 75% are "meh".
Very, very political. If you tread on the wrong territory, even unknowingly, your project will be killed and your career possibly ended.
Very siloed. Product strategies look like congressional districts. Turf wars abound.
Software org is a mess.
Promotion to Principal Engineer and above is difficult (as it very well should be), but sometimes, unfortunately, politics plays a role.
Promote more technical leaders to executive management.
Have engineers running engineering orgs (engineers who have delivered product).
Need to think outside the box (or the silo) a bit more at senior management levels and encourage initiatives at "the bottom".
The CEO has tech briefings where engineers (ICs) present new technology developments, ideas, or engineering progress. I think the goal is to get around intermediate management layers. This admirable goal is severely compromised by how thoroughly massaged these were by everyone in the intervening reporting chain.
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