Internal inequality, abysmal work-life balance and lack of leadership - Recensione dipendente - Developer presso Nebius

As the people at Nebius are over 90% Russian, there is a huge language barrier for anyone that doesn't understand it. Questions asked on public channels can often get a reply in Russian. You might get a translation if you ask for it. Nearly all of the technical documentation is also in Russian. On Slack, technical discussions happen often in Russian. Even if the content was super relevant for everyone. As the leadership is pretty much 100% Russian, important decisions are also made in Russian. Don't expect any other team to work with you unless you can approach them in Russian. The company operates 24/7 and expects everyone to be available at all times. A lot of work happens in the middle of the night. While officially no one is demanding you to work 20 hours a day, it is often hinted that the leadership is expecting that. You will hear that good is not enough and everyone is expect to go beyond their standards to deliver. The company leadership is also very stuck in the old Russian macho mindset, where the people at top are always better. Important customers and projects are funneled to the top, even if there were people below them much more suited to the task. Managers have massibe egos and any failures will always lead to teams and their leadership biggering about who is at fault. Even customer feedback is labeled as false if it goes against the views of a manager at Nebius. Expect a lot of reasonable requests to different teams to be met with arguments against it.