There is a very strong clique mentality which can make or break your time here. There are a select few that get the choice treatment when it comes to raises, work, and growth and development opportunities. If you are not a part of this core group it is an uphill battle to prove yourself. Even after proving yourself, if you’re not in the clique you get paltry raises in comparison to those that are in it.
There is also way too much of a “we’ll fix that later” mentality. Rather than tackling the technical debt early they tend to add to the growing backlog and the quality of the products and the maintainability of them suffers for it.