Pros
- On a team level, I've never had a problem with any co-workers. It can 100% be different at higher levels, but for the most part people are pretty awesome! - While the exec-level decisions rarely make sense, I counter-intuitively trust the HR(/People and Culture) quite a bit. I haven't heard of any complaints about them during the whole time I've worked there, and they've pushed for many improvements, such as a half-year(? 180 days IIRC) parental leave policy per-parent. - While very team-dependent, my work-life balance has been pretty good! 7.5 working hours for 99% of days.
Cons
- Even with a few ways of getting a general pulse on the company (e.g. 6-monthly surveys to track well-being/outlook), the executives seem to like to actively minimise or ignore any concerns that go against whichever initiative/policies they're pushing for - Despite claiming to want transparency, the executive level seem to have no issue either hiding behind managers or using surprise announcements for controversial initiatives, using very flimsy reasoning for them at the best of times - Even the exec-level initiatives with decent reasoning are badly executed (see the above point). Recently, a co-location policy was announced and gave multi-year members of many teams a few weeks at most to transfer to other teams (against their will, bringing some to tears, hope it was worth it!). - The above has gotten to the point where many employees (including myself) are scared to call them out on the above issues, in fear of being targeted. - While benefits are pretty great, monetary compensation is a bit on the mid-low end