Good pay for new hires, but poor work-life balance
Good pay for new hires, but poor work-life balance
There is good compensation if you join new. Employees who have been here for a long time are usually unsatisfied with increments and overall CTC as their joining stocks are all vested.
Work-life balance has gone out of the picture. It is not the Microsoft I used to hear about in my early career, and people are on full-time survival mode in some orgs.
Care about work more than the favourite word of managers and leadership, which is "visibility".
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