Pros
- There are some great individuals - Most people are usually willing to help if they can - People are generally really trying their best - Some remote work - Meaningful work by proxy - Rapdily changing priorities can keep things from being boring - You can have impact if you make friends with the right people
Cons
- Lots of inefficient, non-scalable technical solutions created by inexperienced engineers - Many leaders/managers lack empathy and awareness - Management doesn’t seem to listen to employees or take concerns/ideas/feedback seriously (empty promises, no meaningful changes. The bare minimum is done seemingly to be able to check off a box and say they did something or maybe so the optics look good, when in practice people fall into habits and nothing really changes) - Power to change things seems to lie in the hands of a few favorites, while other voices are disregarded. The people with this power seem reluctant to change anything to avoid rocking the boat and potentially upsetting anyone - Leaders take the word of their friends over the word of everyone else