Highly stressful & high uncertainty - Software Engineer Alibaba Group Employee Review

3.0
Sep 1, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Things move fast and you will learn a lot of new stuff in a relatively short period of time. Compensation is well-above peer Internet companies if you are able to deliver really good work.

Cons

Work-life-balance is bad. Company always tries to brain-wash you to work harder. Projects are not well planned. A lot of waste of resources on useless or redundant projects. Your performance is evaluated against other colleagues in your team. If everybody works hard, it needs some luck and takes a lot of extra efforts to not to be evaluated as "under-performer".

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Cons

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