Pros: As long as you perform well, there is no reason to start looking beyond. There are good opportunities to learn and grow. They want to develop you and will do that forcefully if required. The review highly depends on your project, however.

Cons: Bell curve! Few opportunities to shift to any other projects or groups, unless the group is being scrapped. Some developers are required to give competency exams, which do not concern their domain, even remotely.

Pros: All in all, a very good place.

Cons: stays the same. Not much challenges.

Pros: Health benefits are good. Good bonus. Mostly not busy.

Cons: The culture is rotten from the root. From HQ, the very hierarchical culture gives little respect and room for freedom to lower-level engineers. Being a remote office in San Jose, we did not get to experience the worst. But the local management here is super empowered over those ruled engineers. * Power plays * Opaque * Favoritism * Politics * Zero trust top-down It is very difficult to feel proud and willing to contribute when knowing that as an employee, you are not really treated as part of the company. The best way to get company or organizational updates is via the internet or grapevine. Several almost got their pay doubled over several years, while most hardly moved an inch. A few are very happy; most, however, are exploited. The company force-installs spyware on employees' computers. Employees are not the asset of the company. There are some fundamental philosophical problems with the company and the local management.