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• A sense of levity and coolness about the product.
• Great benefits and above-average pay.
• Most orgs outside of engineering treat each other well and are accepting.
• In engineering, it really matters who's in your management chain for daily work culture.

• Since so much of engineering pay is in stock, the stock price dictates the mood.
• The engineering culture on some teams is basically the worst of Amazon, despite the company trying to insist on empathy as a value.
• There are plenty of engineers that complain about any DEI efforts, who preach that everyone can get to where they are by just pulling up their bootstraps.
• The review process changes every round.
• Engineering town halls tend to just complain about stock, review processes, and what food item/perk has changed.

Simplify your review practices and lean more heavily on 360 review frameworks.

Don’t let bad behavior and toxic people persist at high levels, lest the poison trickle down.