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Early/late meetings when working with colleagues outside of your region. We usually solve this by doing rotation globally of the time. Longer work week when there is a push or a major thing that needs to be fixed. My team solves this by having days off the following week or shorter days where possible.

- Onboarding is a hit & miss - you need to be very conscious about what team / manager you choose. - Managers are a "hit & miss" too (this is particularly true for EMEA). - Lots of change, often lack of continuity, lots of friction (in org, code, ownership...) due to this. - Often short-term thinking; people are smart but incentives often set up in a way that encourages short term thinking. - You cannot get away with simply being a great engineer; you need to be a sort of social butterfly and build personal connections as well to meet expectations. - Unless you are very conscious about your own growth and career, you can have a hard time growing. - Hours can be long in order to meet expectations (WLB can be especially challenging if you need to work with US west coast). - Peer pressure to achieve more and more and more... can lead to a vicious cycle and often burn-out. Differences in personal circumstance (and willingness/opportunity to put in extra hours) are not really taken into account when impact is measured.