I hope it will get better over time
Pros
- Competitive salary and benefit package - Free fruit - Very nice and smart colleagues - Ability to use some Open Source software like jQuery and knockout - The idea of volunteering is nice
Cons
- The first month is a big hassle of getting network access and filling out endless HR forms. If you ask the HR person a question, they simply ask you to submit a question to the HR intranet website. Coming from smaller companies, I really miss a personal touch. - We are asked to work weekends and evenings, however, no laptop is provided and VPN is blocked from my home computer unless I upgrade to Windows 10 Professional. The no laptop policy will be reversed in 2 months, so I'll have to deal with it for a while longer. - As a group of new employees we were thrown into a big deadline while taking over a project from another team. So, we have to learn a great deal from the other team while working extremely hard to make the deadline. The past 2 months were easily the most stressful of my career. - Even while working super hard, the end result is not that great because the partner teams are equally stressed and it's too easy to make mistakes in such an atmosphere. - Only one 1x1 meeting so far.
