Good pay, good teammates, bad culture
Good pay, good teammates, bad culture
- Good pay
- Free food
- Great teammates
- Funny environment
- Good flexibility of PTO and leave
- Bad culture
- PM driven
- Engineers have no power
- Brain gets burnt out even if you don't have much work
- No one wants to work hard
- No code review or effort to improve engineering
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