Seller Org engineering is a disaster, ML is career suicide - Senior Software Engineer Block Employee Review

1.0
Oct 26, 2021
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Pros

Amazing engineers. Good pay. Other orgs seems very good.

Cons

Mid/Sr Management is toxic. You'll get promoted to management based on politics, or having friends/nepotism, not skills. if politics and building empires with your friends is your thing over skills, it's your place to be a manager/leader. Most Directors here wouldn’t even get a phone callback at any FAANG, and the leveling is a joke. If you know what “ML” stands for your are Staff ML engineer Seller feels like a bad nightmare version of the worse parts of Amazon and Yahoo mid level management

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