Very stressful work culture
Very stressful work culture
Compensation is very good.
If you can handle the stress and toxic culture, career growth can be good, and there is a lot to learn.
Surface-level benefits, such as free food and merchandise, are good.
- Extremely stressful work culture.
- Evaluated based on how your "project" goes, not how all of your other work goes.
- Can get put on a PIP/fired quite easily.
- Thrown into the deep end as a graduate and will get cut if you don't do well in your first project.
Stop basing performance reviews on big projects and instead make the culture more collaborative. Having one massive project per person is not an effective way to do software engineering.
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