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• Free food and drinks (including lunch)
• Health insurance
• Good office
• Great computers (latest MacBook Pro with lot of RAM)
• Interesting engineering challenges at large scale.

Most people speak only Chinese in the office.

There are a lot of extra hours (unpaid).

There are expectations that you work more hours than your contract.

Basically, they imported the 995 (9 am to 9 pm, 5 days a week) culture from China.

Local management and HR are dismissive about the overtime issues, considering them to be isolated cases.

Delivery expectations from the Product Manager are unrealistic, yet they don't want any pushback from engineering.

Many new hires are Chinese students, not helping with adopting Australian culture.

Listen to your employees when they ask questions in AMA. A lot of people are working 9h to 15h a day for months!

Consider hiring local Australian managers and team leads to help with the culture.

You are burning out your people. You want to be like Google; start respecting the local work-life balance.