Good benefits, not much room for growth in the Silicon Valley campus
Good benefits, not much room for growth in the Silicon Valley campus
- Looks good on resume
- Benefits are good
- Secure
- Excellent working conditions (personal office, top-notch hardware...)
- There is very little organic growth in the SVC campus.
- Lots of stick, very little carrot.
- Developers are disempowered and micromanaged.
- Frequent reorgs.
- You won't get any experience working on technologies that are in high demand in the valley (Linux, PHP, J2EE...).
Encourage innovation and increase presence in the valley.
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