- family like attitude leads to
* supersonic gossips flow
* sometimes new technologies are chosen depending on someone's mood, instead of reasonable arguments
- certain level of formalism
- good sense of feeling that senior stuff does what they want/need to do, wile others should obey the rules
- a lot of wasted effort based on the fact that some technical leads have spent enough time in company, instead of being actual brains of the company, which leads to fairly stupid mistakes
- as soon as you leave the company, it's impossible to get references. Seems like they stop caring about their commitments a second after you step out the doors.