Pros
- Remote work (becoming increasingly rare) - Nice, hard-working, smart teammates - Compensation and benefits - It's a job and you get paid
Cons
- Constant stress, biannual performance review cycle that takes days / weeks to complete for ICs and managers. - Maybe it's not that bad if you can manage your tolerance for this toxic bs and just churn out PRs - boost your own metrics. People are literally jumping at quick PRs to change a couple lines of code. - Projects are a mess with unclear direction and requirements, roadmaps, meeting-filled days of constant syncs where things inch along, tight deadlines - who even sets these? I trust that most of the people I work with directly are well-intentioned, but overall, it's a mess and we rarely know what's going on. - So many internal politics and people trying to look good. - It's now common for people to suddenly disappear without a trace (obviously PIP'd for performance). Was close to a teammate who got PIP'd - manager basically bullied them for a few weeks, never satisfied with anything they did, and it was a losing fight my teammate. - Even though teammates are nice, it's not in your favor to be too helpful. Ultimately, you're pitted against your peers. - Values are completely backwards. I joined for the values and really believed in them at the start, but now I'm just exhausted and burnt out. I know this isn't uncommon across the company. It's probably best if you care less - try to set work-life boundaries. - AI all the things