Vantaggi
The salary was not bad and there were lots of opportunities for travel so I did enjoy that. In terms of personal growth, I met a lot of personalities and learned how to navigate cultural differences with a lot of success. However, I didn’t learn any new hard skills. The tools we used were internally developed and not used in other companies so I can’t even say it’ll help me in my next job.
Svantaggi
1. Very very political. It’s all about who you know. It gets very tiring and stressful playing office politics. 2. Unrealistic expectations. Wants everything to be measurable and show improvement within a short period of time when the company doesn’t even have the appropriate tools to accurately measure anythings 3. If your leader is based in CN and you have to work with colleagues there, it’ll be very hard. They say they’ll accommodate your time zone but they’ll only try once or twice then default make to what is convenient for them so it means late nights for those working outside of their time zone. 4. Documentation Sucks. Enough said.