Pros
- depending on the team, there are largely friendly and encourage coffee breaks or lunches to build collaboration among the team. - easy to schedule small meetings with engineers to design and delegate tasks amongst engineers if working on the same project - JIRA integration largely increased productivity among teams, managers, team leads, PMs - prior to COVID and everyone going remote, department team building activities were encouraged following Town Halls, IT All Hands. - find an upper management / senior or team lead early on as they are usually very beneficial and more than happy to mentor and provide advice regarding aspects and how achieve your personal career goals. - security is very helpful and attentive should you have a safety concern,
Cons
- poor cross-team collaboration; if we had a better overall team moral, less negative gossip spread about other teams to each other, listened and *valued* everyone's opinions and expertise—I strongly believe (and have heard the same from many other colleagues—we could drastically improve productivity, practices and processes, workflows, as well as the identification of technical issues and best solutions forward. - lack of efficient project management to reach quarterly & yearly roadmap goals - very high expectation of all engineers, pushed to burnout levels, and with not much regard to improve team moral, productivity, enjoyment day-to-day - upper management less concerned with individual engineer career goals; very difficult to receive internal promotions or raises, and move/apply to other positions cross-teams better fitted for long-term career goals. - expected to work 60-70+ weeks and highly pressured to constantly work after hours, on call, on the weekends, during scheduled time off, or during illness - it's common to hear execs say you will be pushed to work endlessly unless you fervently push back, despite illness, family or personal emergencies, scheduled PTO or regular "holidays".