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Benefits are actually pretty good for US employees.

There's a slow enough pace that the influx of former government employees aren't overwhelmed.

• Your starting pay locks in how much money you are going to make. There are no cost-of-living raises, and promotions are only 6-10%. It is safe to assume anyone hired more than six months after you at the same pay has a higher base.

• The technology stack is a mixture of ancient, kinda ancient, and irrelevant. Most of it is running on in-house designed and built platforms that have to be cycled out every two years as the developers who built them leave.

• Posturing, politics, and presentation skills are the pathway to success in technology, not technical capability.

• Between lunch & learns, tech experience talks, affinity groups, employee connection programs, and the regular meeting load, you can get paid for talking and sitting in meetings for half the week.

You have created a culture where anybody who tells the SLT the truth is culled. You have no idea what is actually happening because everything you are being told is laced with lies.