Not what I expected
Not what I expected
- Impactful projects
- Smart colleagues
- Pay was great, especially as stock went up
- Entertaining meme culture
Culture is changing rapidly, becoming more top-down.
Good PSC reviews require great technical delivery and role performance, but you won't get a good rating from performance alone. I have seen PSC used for political retribution about 50% of the time. It's the first job I've seen this level of blame game and backstabbing.
IC6+ can do whatever. Great for them, but there is very little accountability in my org. It was common for them to burn IC4/IC5 by coercing them to follow bad "advice" which ended up backfiring. Three people left my team after getting burned in PSC this way, with no repercussions to IC6+ at all.
Some teams have a high on-call load. I was on 24/7 on-call 50% of the time at worst, and being on several on-call rotations is common.
There is very high team attrition; the team fully turned over every 1-2 years.
Read the above. I have no desire to ever come back. I was promised a bottoms-up culture and instead experienced the most top-down culture I've seen in my career.
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