This place is a disaster. Don't take a position here. If you are reading this because you were offered a role, decline it. If they offer more money, decline it again.
First, you probably aren't getting a job offer because they only want to hire people in India (via the GCC) going forward, and any U.S. roles are now mandatory hybrid in-office. Good luck with dealing with getting to the Chicago office 2-3 times a week and working in the hotel conditions.
Second, if you do get a role and don't mind going into downtown Chicago a few times a week to an office missing most of your team, they probably promised you a 10% bonus on your compensation. You won't get that. Not happening. You'll get about half, maybe a little more if you impress your manager and they take away some money from the rest of your team to bump your bonus. Either way, you aren't getting that bonus. Also, don't expect a significant raise for quite awhile. 2-3% at most. Even if you work hard and earn a title promotion, you aren't getting a pay increase.
Third, the leadership is completely inept and incapable of their jobs. It's a serious mystery how these people got where they are. The leadership has spent years blowing through money and racking up debt to acquire smaller companies/technologies, promising it would lead to growth in existing and new markets/verticals. The actual result of that? 2 rounds of layoffs in 6 months, no bonuses/raises for employees (despite touting good quarterly numbers), forced attrition through RTO, outsourcing every job that isn't bolted down to India, squeezing pennies out of reducing or replacing tech stacks with open source or cheaper products, and overstressed U.S. employees because we have to deal with all of the above. So many critical teams have now been laid off/gutted/offshored that adds piles of work to those remaining. Morale is in the dumpster. No one here is optimistic about the future except the people at the top who are making plenty of money while shedding U.S. jobs and running the place into the ground. The tech keeps getting worse and worse. It's a mess.
