Good pay and benefits, lackluster culture
Good pay and benefits, lackluster culture
- Free health insurance, dental, vision
- 50% 401k match
- Stock is generally performant
- RTO / revoking all employees' remote status.
- Nearly all tooling is internal, very buggy, and slow. Security checks on all deployments make testing a 10-minute change five hours or more.
- You have to carry around multiple Windows laptops (Secure Admin Workstation and Corp laptop).
- There are slow promotion cycles internally.
- There is constant attrition and then picking up the work of SMEs who left.
- Teams are rebuilding the wheel from scratch in many areas rather than standardizing infrastructure.
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