Pros
- Worked with a direct team who were great, opportunity to work with people from around the world - Great work-life balance - Excellent first exposure to the kind of work I want to do having become stagnant in an ETL role previously
Cons
- The role would be much easier with direct client contact, rather than the current gatekeeping by project managers who insist on being the middle man. Towards the end we were treated as a service internally instead of having our skills recognised and valued - Changes to workflow are imposed top down from people who are too far removed from the day-to-day, and often actually have negative impact on delivery time and cost - Salaries are low. The rise I was offered to move externally was twice what I was in line for with a promotion. They were also far to slow to react and give any sort of pay rise to account for the massive inflation seen in most of the world in 2022 - My direct manager was out of his depth. This meant those above him took advantage of him/our team to push through half-baked ideas without resistance, and internal stakeholders began to not trust the team and assume we all had the same weaknesses. It's also frustrating to know you're 2+ years away from getting promoted into a role where you know you could already do better than the incumbent