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I recently joined a big tech company. It was a long term project and something quite new to me as I switched career and was working in a different context. There are pros and cons, but it's a bit of a disappointment.

I've got the impression very quickly that absolutely nobody cares about me in this company and that employees mostly don't love what they do. Specifically - There's a high turn-over - Everybody is focused on their performance, compensation and on improving evaluation metrics - Right after joining, I found the form explaining how to resign. Extremely easy. - People do get fired: including a skilled, friendly, colleague of mine (didn't meet expectations for two semesters). - Management knows how to keep the pressure high (in a friendly manner) - I can't like my project: there are too many things to do and broken things to fix, also no feeling of ownership, no incentives to refactor or redesign.





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