996 Culture - SRE/DevOps Engineer Tencent Employee Review

3.0
Jun 20, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Working in TEG, especially main job scope is serving Tencent cloud. Good explore, good colleagues, good lead and mentor(willing to give guidance and support).

Cons

- 996 culture, keep OT and receive calls/msg after working hour, even during midnight - culture shock due to oversea foreigner, other groups/business unit will keep chase the progress eventhough still got plenty of time. - never plan/schedule well, just want fast pace to settle everything. Wasted a lot of time/energy to finish the tasks if there are some mistakes(kinda hardworking performance for china ppl?) - small matter can create a large group in wecom(similar to wechat/whatsapp), drag a lot of ppl to solve issue instantly. - very low paid per working hour.

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Tencent Response
3y
We are really serious against the 996 culture. Pls talk about this to your local HR contact. Employees' health is out no.1 concern in order to build a positive culture.

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