Multicultural and crowded with .NET
Multicultural and crowded with .NET
Get to meet people from all over the world (not just 1-2 countries).
Five languages were spoken in my hallway!
Lots of benefits (which means marching to their drum).
Get ahead of the curve on new Microsoft technologies.
The worst place in the world for a creative person! If you see a problem, you aren't authorized to tell the decision makers. Everyone's marching so hard (in the wrong direction) that you're holding things up if you want to stop and think.
Author the lowest-quality work of your life, as "push it in now & label the rest of implementation as bugs for later" is the standard I experienced in two distant branches.
Oh, and if you have ever lived in a place with regular sunshine, don't even try it up here unless you're only a gamer.
Implement a product feedback process!
Mid-management edicts need to be about "why" and not "what".
Even if a half-day a week went to "just sit & chat with someone in a neighboring team," more progress would be made, as the whole thing is just too disjointed.
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