There’s a snack bar, fruit days, and occasional free treats.

1. Very large requirements are assigned with unreasonable timelines.

2. The schedule changes constantly, and you have to argue back and forth about it.

3. You can’t ask about overtime pay on weekdays; you’ll get fired. Someone previously asked about it and was fired the following week, leaving the entire company team in a state of anxiety.

4. Upper management thinks coding is just copying and pasting, as if Java and JavaScript were the same language.

5. Some projects don’t use a RESTful API architecture and instead use custom frameworks. Once those are completed, they rush the frontend engineers’ progress.

6. It’s relatively difficult to learn things here. What you can learn more readily is bureaucratic culture. Don’t expect to learn much technically; you have to try new things yourself and see whether you decide to introduce them.

7. You can’t speak directly; you have to use insinuations. You can’t directly point out blind spots and disrupt the company’s superficial harmony, or your supervisor will call you in for a meeting.

8. The salary is actually average, but it’s somewhat better compared with other companies. You won’t earn much, but you won’t starve either.

9. They really like unrealistic development expectations. Sometimes they talk as if they hope a project can be developed by the next day. They have this mindset even when they know they’ve assigned something complex. The idea of going from 0% progress to 100% the next day is highly impractical. Engineers have a very low status at this company.

10. They don’t pay overtime for weekday overtime. To receive overtime pay, there must be an official justification. Management’s definition is that you voluntarily work overtime because you want to get things done well, so they don’t proactively provide overtime pay. If you insist, what happened in point 3 may happen to you.

11. A flat organization? Not flat at all. If you report to higher management over your supervisor’s head, upper management will feel that you are disrespecting your supervisor. The hierarchy is very obvious: a supervisor is a supervisor. A supervisor’s demands and arbitrary changes are considered reasonable, while the requests of people below are considered unreasonable.

12. Returning to point 3: after firing someone, they held a meeting to tell the engineers that they had no intention of using people up before laying them off. Basically, anyone with eyes, ideas, and the ability to think would not see it that way.

13. They say you can freely express yourself, but that’s completely false. They’re just trying to portray themselves as a happy company. Give me a break.