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Compensation and benefits are decent. Good coworkers.

The engineering culture is on a steep decline.

There is forced stack ranking for performance reviews that's naively focused on short-term impact.

Engineering leadership (VPs specifically) is terrible and holds no accountability for themselves, instead trying to pass down accountability to others lower in their reporting chain. They are unable to push back on product initiatives and instead want ICs to be blamed for not pushing back on initiatives we don't believe in.

This is a terribly inefficient way to do things.

WLB is declining because of all this, and burnout across orgs is on the rise. Multiple high performers are unhappy and have already left or are in the middle of plans to leave.

Stop passing the blame and accountability for working on the wrong things.

Engineering VPs should be able to spot bad initiatives and stop them instead of waiting for ICs to push back.

Build back a more empathetic and supportive work culture before it is too late.