CUBRC reviews

Being a top performer means putting in nights and weekends. There can be endless meetings (I have seen a scheduled 6 hour meeting before) making it hard to find time to get any actual work done other than at home after hours. Throughout the department of the company I worked in there seemed to be a lack of sense of identity. There was no ownership or pride in the software being created. All work was done soley to keep the people funding the company happy. All research was somehow expected to produce fully functioning, tested, software. The "time, quality, cost - pick 2 triangle" was really a "we want all three triangle". Requirements were not defined or changed drastically week to week. Extremely tiring place to work for an extended period of time.

- Every day will count toward whatever you are building, so there is not much “chill” time. You need to decide if you prefer a corporate job where there’s more meetings, less engineering, and your impact is smaller, or a role at CUBRC where you have 7+ hours a day of pure coding time, almost no meetings, and your individual impact is larger. - Science doesn’t always follow a direct path. You might build something for an unclear reason or the feature gets discontinued or thrown out. Its requester might have just wanted to see if it actually could work or how it looks if it was created. This is just the nature of research. For this reason, you should focus on the satisfaction of when your contributions are used and the skills you attained building the software.