Great when you start, terrible as you become useful
Pros
Teammates were nice people. Direct management did make an effort to try and make things enjoyable. There is a clear effort to make DEI policy part of daily life.
Cons
It's a very damaging culture to have the latest hire be the highest paid person in a team (excluding management). Often reminded of this because there is an emphasis on not sharing what you're earning. Obviously, being a legal right people speak about it, therefore this isn't even a smart policy. Salary revision is based on vibes, because the evaluation is completely inaccurate, having people who leave their work incomplete, face multiple incidents a year and fail to show improvement, get better evaluation and raises than others who often do the work of 2 people for weeks straight. When concerns are raised to management and HR this kind of issue gets squashed as soon as possible. Competence and hard work is rewarded with more work. DEI feels forced. It's as if having a poster in your workplace about racism makes up for how little you actually see POC being hired. Having a pride poster doesn't make up for the fact that someone doing the heavy lifting on a team earns less than the person who is learning how to send an email to a client and can't be trusted with an unlocked PC for 10 minutes. Know before going into this company that company success doesn't correlate with your earning power increase, My experience has been the opposite.
