YMMV. Hope you land on a good team
YMMV. Hope you land on a good team
- Good benefits and bonus, salary is decent.
- Interesting/informative events/talks (if you have time to attend them).
- Good perks.
- Terrible work-life balance.
- Contractors often treated as second-class citizens (this is coming from the perspective of an FTE).
- Offshore teams (non-US-based) are taken advantage of. It is normal to see them online at 1-2 AM their time.
- There doesn't seem to be a good handle on the time-zone spread.
- Internal movement is not as streamlined or encouraged as it is advertised to be.
- Normalize an 8-5 / 9-6 schedule.
- Openly discuss career goals and trajectory.
- Respect offshore counterparts; they are human beings, not resources.
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