The office organization provides a great work-life balance, with technical and political challenges
The office organization provides a great work-life balance, with technical and political challenges
Can't beat the work-life balance with a low-stress environment, high brand recognition. Product audience means your work can have impact (if you can fight the technical and political challenges to make meaningful progress).
Deep hierarchy with not much variation in promotion velocity (people get awarded titles for tenure length). Employees tend to ignore emails from junior employees without impressive titles. Very political, high complacency, a lot of apathy and "rest and vest"ers.
Fire poor performers. Don't let them hang around for decades doing minimal work, accumulating high titles solely based upon tenure length, and then abusing those titles to force poor decisions on aspiring up-and-comers who get demoralized.
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Redmond, Washington, United StatesNovember 1, 2012Submitted resume online during campus recruiting in March-April 2012. Received a one-on-one campus interview with positive feedback. Later received notice of a chance to do an onsite interview. However, it was too late for a Summer 2012 internship
