Pros
- People are usually nice and well-coming.
- Some units/teams are highly professional, especially verticals like Real Estate and Auto.
- Data-informed culture, many cool research reports can be found on Confluence.
- Great analysts and engineers who are genuinely interested in the product.
- High salary.
Cons
- Some units/teams are shockingly weak. No strategy, research, modern product frameworks — just data manipulation to match the OKRs.
- A/B tests are often an excuse for bad design decisions.
- Waiting for months to ship anything. A lot of legacy which kills UX solutions.
- Design is more like an optional layer and not a strategic partner.
- Demotivated designers in some units. The salary is probably the best on the Russian market, so people stay no matter whether they like the job.
- Non-transparency of the design management decisions. Too much politics.
- Interview promises don't match the reality. You might join the company for a new innovative project, but will find out in the first weeks that they actually were looking for a strong professional to fix a problematic team. No innovation, just eternal syncs and lack of expertise and resources.