Vantaggi
I was rewarded well for the work I did My team were fantastic, bonded really well and helped each other out Some of the work was very interesting, involving some great technology.
Svantaggi
Impending org changes around my team were the main cause of leaving. There was a toxic faction of employees in engineering who had more influence than they perhaps deserved and abused it. The company became increasingly insistent on pushing social justice causes on it's employees by corrupting the compliance training mechanism - a mechanism originally intended to ensure company policy is communicated as well as painting the legal landscape that an employee may need to navigate related to the job (insider secrets, corruption, discrimination etc) Being asked to implicitly agree with ridiculous premises around race/sex/gender politics. You pay me for my time, skills and business acumen...not to tell me what to believe. There was also some training around speech, such as: "the intent of your speech does not matter only how it is perceived". Pretty extreme stuff for anyone paying attention. The company also took a strong position on mandating the covid vaccine against it's US staff to keep a job. A number of good, productive people were forced to leave while the clock was ticking down to the enforcement date. In the end it all fizzled away anyway, but no apology was given and a lot of credibility was already lost.