- There is no trust between employees and Senior Management (Directors and above). You cannot expect your higher ups to be invested in your growth, they are just covering their own base. Any mistake you do can and will be taken up against you.
- Promotions are a joke with ~5% increment. Everyone is taking care of their own KPIs which means you will have multiple squads running similar initiatives.
- Mediocre work. Its a matured product with dying customer base. All initiatives are either about optimizing something that already exists or around introducing new process and initiatives. An address correction feature or dynamic pricing is hailed as the next big initiative. Things that exist since past 15 years. A market where new LLMs are being introduced, tech work here is really subpar with basic engineering and product practices missing. They talk big but look at HF's recipe recommendation and you would know how good they are.
- Every year new strategies are written or discovered (with confirmation bias). As the year ends, they think of new things to do which is essentially the same old stuff but with a new name.
