Samsung

Great culture; everybody is humble and down-to-earth. It still feels like a startup, where you can reach out to anybody and talk about anything.

Real-time distributed systems mean you are going to be constantly challenged and entertained as well. Scaling the services, improving their reliability, and observability is just one example.

Business is booming, which brings about tons of growth opportunities.

Rapid growth comes with the pain of scaling, scaling teams and services quickly to meet the ever-increasing demand. It is a good problem to have. I prefer to be in such an environment than being in a stagnant or slow-growth business.

Due to timezone differences, collaboration across sites is not easy, especially with teams located in the Far East.

Say no more often. I know you are doing it already; keep doing it. The latest restructuring made perfect sense. Build on it.