- Not a family friendly environment--bad language, harsh attitudes, short tempers, and impatience from others leads to intimidation rather than healthy teamwork
- High pressure environment can have a crippling effect on work/life balance, especially as more projects are added to one's workload
- "Corporate ladder" climbing is implicitly expected--can be a pro or con depending on how you view this
- Pervasive belief that time spent = knowledge and experience gained by osmosis, without continued intentional training efforts from others. Many unspoken things you have to unfairly "just know"
- Time spent on training and asking for help from your peers are both frowned upon, despite well-meaning corporate directives to actually do so, leading to serious knowledge gaps that will come back to haunt you when you least expect it
- Judgmental & unforgiving atmosphere--much energy must be exerted looking good outwardly. Adopting managerial "corporate speak" amidst your engineering skillset is vital to long-term survival here