Depends on the team
Depends on the team
- Compensation
- Office: Tech is good, and snacks and drinks are usually nice.
- Work-Life Balance: This depends. In most teams that I saw, you can make a bare minimum and get an average rating on your performance review without big issues.
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London food is awful, compared to USA offices: little choice of meat, and side dishes are strange. Desserts are good, though.
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There is an unreasonably high number of management layers in some organizations, and some managers look incompetent.
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Engineering culture is weird in some places. For example, sometimes people spend more time on writing documents than on coding. Even worse, a very few people would read those documents.
- Reduce costs on RL; they don't deliver that much.
- Remove layers; it's annoying to see all of these layers without much value from them.
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