Pros
— Good work-life balance — Job security
Cons
My team has a toxic culture I wish I had never worked with these people. I blame the toxic culture on the middle management that is incapable, high-ego, and unfair. — There’s no meritocracy. Managers keep incapable people in the team and capable people have to go out of their way to help them and receive no credit for that. — Managers favor yes-man rather than the ones who tell the truth. They worry more about subordinates following their orders than them solving real problems. — I have been humiliated by my boss in public and treated in an unfriendly way by my colleagues many times. Managers are insensitive to the feelings of their subordinates. — Because of the toxic culture, conflicts between team members happen all the time and they ended up having to be arbitrated by the manager, who doesn’t have a good sense of fairness. — My team is overstaffed. I burnt out a lot of my energy dealing with politics rather than solving real problems.