It's a good place, but slowly changing for the worse
It's a good place, but slowly changing for the worse
Company provides good benefits, a reasonable salary. You have some career path, although it becomes very tough at the principal level and higher.
The review system is a minus. Every year, each group has to identify 10% of low performers and fire some of them.
Benefits are slowly decreasing in quality.
Pay more attention to engineers; it becomes a sales company.
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