Great benefits and impactful work, but constant fear of layoffs and lack of camaraderie
Great benefits and impactful work, but constant fear of layoffs and lack of camaraderie
- Best benefits and compensation package in the market.
- Work is highly impactful and scales to the billions of users.
- Resume booster.
- Much of what you need to live is available on campus (which can be a con).
- Social culture is pretty dead.
- In place of camaraderie, a fear-based culture made for PSC and short-term impact-chasing. It kind of checks out because the company plays it quarter-by-quarter too.
- You WILL get reorged at some point, often to your loss.
- WLB: A forty-hour workweek will not get you promoted, which is now important since performance criteria can change without warning.
- Leadership is tone-deaf.
- There is often siloed development work, made even more isolating thanks to the AI push.
- There are mostly all internal tools, so it will be a bit difficult to map your experience here to external tooling.
- Arguably we have some of the best and brightest in the world, let alone in the country, but you will often be reminded how disposable you are when parts of your team disappear while working through sprints.
- Be more decisive and stop the news leaks that decrease morale and productivity for months.
- RTO != better in-person culture.
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