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2.0
Sep 9, 2018

Excellent place for a career start but don't stay too long

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Pros

Excellent Internship and graduates programmes International environment Internal career moves are encouraged (also because it's the only way to remain in the company longer than 2 years)

Cons

very little work-life balance: to get ahead the only option is to work long hours on a permanent basis. If you don't (because of personal or health reasons) you will hardly be considered for a promotion or a salary increase. short staffed: most departments are constantly short in staff, putting a lot of pressure on the remaining people to deliver the same results as if the team was fully staffed. weak management in most departments : very few will stand up for their people and work together to complete a project successfully. Most managers are not interested in the day-to-day work. NY centric: all the decisions are taken in headquarters, conference calls with EMEA and APAC are just an fyi. re-orgs are really badly managed and communicated: there is no care for people nor recognition for the work done.

1.0
Aug 29, 2018

If you are young

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Pros

Good pay, benefits, and snacks.

Cons

Do not values experienced employees.

4.0
Aug 19, 2018
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Pros

If you get the right team, you'll be working with modern tools and encouraged to contribute to inner source. Supportive environment. A lot of access to continuing education, volunteering, and benefits. Clear boundaries and responsibilities, energetic environment. Very technically capable employees (collaborative growth). Good pay. Internal mobility is now encouraged.

Cons

If you get a bad team, or a bad legacy project, it can be a horrible experience. I've seen several talented engineers get frustrated at the lack of impetus to improve existing systems. Business often bleeds its responsibilities into engineering, leading to rushed projects or bad decisions because non-engineers are driving the conversation. A lot of internal forks of third party projects or dated Bloomberg implementations of existing tech (related to the above, fortunately changing). Normal trappings of internal politics expected of large organizations.

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