Good company to gain skills from
Good company to gain skills from
Lots of different projects to work on, and now it is easier to move around internally. The benefits are really nice. I especially like the ESPP program where we can buy stock at a discounted price, and it matures over 3 months to the full price.
Main campus is also great and is in a good location (close to Bellevue, Kirkland, and Redmond, all nice areas).
Management. The company is way too top-heavy. Engineers do not have enough freedom to do their jobs.
The culture that came out of the 1-5 rating system is also pretty bad, where instead of working together, people are trying to "show off" and look better than their peers. While I'm sure this is a problem at any big company, it seems to be worse here due to the old review system culture that stuck, even though that system was thrown out.
Let engineers have more freedom. There is no reason to hire really smart people to micromanage everything they do.
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