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It’ll only make you spend all day wondering whether you were blind when you joined in the first place.
Anyone thinking of applying for an engineering position should read more reviews.
The company’s systems and policies are poorly managed.
The company is full of people with inflated egos.
Managers don’t handle things, while outsiders interfere.
Senior employees with five or more years of experience take advantage of newcomers in every possible way—if you’re inexperienced, you’re doomed.
When tasks are assigned from above, they pretend not to see them, spending all day on their phones and stealing their salaries.
The job posting says occasional travel, but that’s a lie—you’ll be traveling constantly at the end of every month.
Normally, the engineering department should share the travel workload, but dream on.
Newcomers end up handling all the trips alone.
This year, the company suffered repeated losses because of someone’s poor decisions.
At the same time, a bunch of engineers resigned.
If you join now, it’s guaranteed to be miserable. Good luck.
A company with fewer than 20 people
Gives you practice in managing interpersonal relationships
A small company still full of people who secure positions through connections
There are barely any employees in the entire company; everyone else is a supervisor
Even assistants do supervisors’ work and manage employees
Work assignments are riddled with problems
Every day you see veteran employees pulling rank, slacking off, and creating all kinds of incidents
Working overtime all the time, with no overtime pay
Leave requests are not approved, including taking three or more consecutive days off (including weekends)
You have to submit the request up the chain all the way to the chairman
There is also no training for new hires
When you join, you have to read the materials and figure things out on your own