- Drink the kool-aid culture is strong. If you aren't always hyped about the product or you question decisions without always accepting the "well, we need to make money" answer; then you will feel like an outsider all of the time.
- So many people take on more work than they should for the sake of "it needs to get done." So there isn't a lot of crunch time specifically, but burnout is so strong across all of the disciplines, and no one seems to care because it isn't as bad as some other places.
- Evolving your career is basically impossible. You will likely stay in the discipline you started in for your entire lifetime at Bungie, with the main changes being an addition of "senior" added to your title, but your job staying the same forever.
- Tools and workflows are archaic. Not just old. Everything is a hassle to make or maintain, and people are constantly being moved around just to cover things that were scoped incorrectly, which happens all of the time. Improvement is always talked about and learning lessons, but in reality, it is never acted upon. Trying new things and adapting new workflows or ideas is tried but quickly abandoned because new things are inconvenient...
