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1) Insane hours (to have impact, you'll need to work with many colleagues in China and hours of overlap start at 5-6pm Pacific). 2) STRONG China bias: your colleagues in China will have more influence and impact, period. Colleagues regularly avoid collaborating with US counterparts to 'move quickly.' 3) Many team leaders are power-hungry and compete for scope at the expense of individual contributors. 4) The company philosophy is to intentionally allow for role overlap and fuzzy swim lanes to have teams compete. 5) On most teams, it's an extremely long and tedious process to get promoted, even if you've been performing well and there is a business need. 6) Benefits don't even come close to comparing to top tech companies like Facebook and Google. 7) They (so far) have been saying they will be inflexible about the ability to work from home after the pandemic, even though the hours are not sustainable. 8) Very poor senior leadership, lack of clear direction.

There is absolutely no work life balance. Management is fully aware as it’s been brought up in town hall meetings multiple times and there has been no solution. When asked if they’d consider flexible work from home since a majority of employees prefer this, they use buzz words like “synergy” to essentially say they will not consider. It’s very tough to put in long hours for a company that does very little for employee happiness and well being. They think that swag solves everything.