Pros
- Looks good on CV I guess? - Smart people around you, mostly. - Fruit day (once a week, gone in five minutes, you can grab an unripe pear if you're lucky!) - Good bonus
Cons
- Overconvoluted, yet meaningless processes. - Getting promoted is 10x easier in hub locations, while requiring way less competency. - Yearly purges - Okay salary, but not enough for all the workload - Doing at least 2 people's work tends to be a baseline, nowadays it's more like 3, depending on team. Growing trend over the years. - Therefore, no time to focus on growing, focus on own projects, focus on automation. It's always deadlines and deadlines. - High fluctuation, so, guess what? Until they hire a new person (if they do at all), you get another 0.5-1 person's workload, then you can spend months training! - Mandatory return to the office with worse conditions than if I worked from home (loud colleagues on call all day, other teams walking by loudly talking, 100 people sitting in one area. 2 HO/week is allowed, and they monitor it religiously like we're children. If you breach it, they go to your manager directly. - They want flexibility (sure I can stay until 9PM, why not), but barely offer any in return (yeah feel free to early leave at 5PM, but the deadline is still there)
