Having said the above, the workload and expectations are easily 40-50% higher. Working wee hours into the night is commonplace and employees are so overwhelmed that they don't have the time to take anyone's ideas no matter how good they are.
There's a product improvement backlog building from 3 years. The new trend of off-shoring to cheap indian programmers has taken hold firmly. So the work never stops. It happens around the clock.
If, as a new employee you care, the clients are sold on one vision (with a very impressive, visually appealing and fast loading demo). But everything in reality is bubble gum, duct tape, and dumpster full of lies. Thousands of undocumented lines of code are in the system, and gigabytes of code generated taking up to an hour to compile things.
As a prospective employee you should care that, sometimes the top management expects you to be able to read minds. If not, you will be shouted at. The strange motto is: "You don't need training, hands on exercises, nor a curriculum with our tools (that don't fully work) to be able to learn how to apply them. Use your high salary to figure them out."
