Solid company with some problems - Software Engineer Block Employee Review

4.0
May 2, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Excellent people, variety of projects, lots of growth and money, learning opportunities.

Cons

Most teams have a rotating 24-hour on-call duty, which I found intrusive: there were lots of pages that needed attention, and the primary and secondary rotations together lasted two weeks. A lot of the work was similar to Operations, so I found the problems I was solving were not interesting. Also, it turned out that my role involved a lot of cross-team politics. I did not find this out until I started the job and looked at the "eng levels" description.

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