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1. The team culture is that they only like obedient employees with no opinions of their own—good children who do whatever the company says (employees who enjoy being subjected to PUA).
2. There is no mentoring system for newcomers. To put it nicely, the style is flexible: if you have a problem, just ask. In reality, the supervisor simply does not want to take on the responsibilities of being a supervisor or proactively mentor people.
3. During an interview with a newly hired employee, the team leader directly said that they do not really like experienced people and think blank slates are easier to manage. My inner monologue: Then why did you hire me?
4. None of the performance review criteria are related to the projects I am handling. They are all vague performance evaluation items, and it is unclear how they are supposed to be observed or assessed.
5. From onboarding through every interview before leaving the company, they always make you feel that you are not serious enough or proactive enough. They keep repeating that the PMs/SAs are not graduates of the relevant fields, and that as an engineer you should help them more. I came here to work, not to be a babysitter.
6. There is a PM supervisor who specializes in getting rid of junior PMs they dislike, while the senior PM supervisor acts like an elementary school student, constantly tattling. If you pick up your phone for a few minutes after debugging all day, they will say you spent the entire day playing on your phone and doing nothing.
7. The SA lacks project management skills, systems analysis skills, and systems architecture skills. Every day, they act as the PM's mouthpiece and still have the nerve to laugh and joke around, only dumping the responsibility on the PG to figure things out themselves. Damn, is the salary really that easy to earn?
8. From the company year-end banquet at the beginning of 2025 through October, despite having fewer than 90 employees company-wide, nearly 20 people in total—including newly hired employees—left. If you want to work in the software industry, that's fine; just don't work at this company, because people here will do everything possible to engage in internal fighting, emotionally blackmail you, or dump work and responsibilities that do not belong to you on you simply because you are new.