Pros
- free lunch - free drinks, snacks and fruit - good colleagues - convenient location in Amsterdam
Cons
- a bunch of smart engineers collaborate together which result in the flaky and bad code. Even to have a simple feature, it needs chatting with previous coders, patience, a waste of time in vain and luck. - lag behind the state-of-the-art tech way too much, which however is not the focus of tech leads who care too about networking. When it comes to work, tech leads would rather micromanage everything than trust people to finish their work. - tech leads don’t have the basic domain knowledge but dictate over how one simple solution is implemented. When it comes to big decisions, they become self-defensive and afraid of making mistakes. You need to try to figure things out even working overtime while managing your manager. - inexperienced managers and team leads with bloated ego, arrogance and hidden personal agenda. often hear “I am always right” in various situations. If you stand up to him/her, you don’t get feedback but face consequences of revenge. - “own your own career” doesn’t mean you have freedom to explore team-wise or tech-solution wise. It is an excuse of bad management and ignorance. In fact, no matter how senior you are, you are stuck in very junior and most of the time below-junior monotonous work. You cannot learn anything in work, and your passion drains away and some colleagues even face chronical depression. it is a dog-eat-dog world.