Cool Hardware Long Hours
Cool Hardware Long Hours
- A very motivated staff
- Food is provided
- Trauma bonding
- It is easy to figure out who is responsible for what
- Documentation is very easy to look through
- Improving the process is encouraged
- Management helps with blockers
- Meetings are short
- You are disposable.
- You work 50+ hours a week.
- Trauma (stress dreams are common).
- You will have to triage between your responsibilities (that are all on fire lol).
- Excessive documentation has to be created to do work.
- It can take an act of congress to make a simple change.
- Management sets overly aggressive goals and wonders why there is burnout.
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