- I had 3 convos with my manager about why I was leaving on time or as he called it: leaving early? Thats not an exaggeration. weird weird weird work culture. sad when I see more senior engineers say they're leaving "early" at 6pm CST. Everyone got in around 7am-8am.
- I understand salary jobs means no overtime BUT they will take every second they can get from you. get in early, stay late.
- management is seriously the worst part about peak6. they tend not to do much, although a manager here or there can have a cool/impressive background most of their time is spent working on PowerPoints. Yes, managers are constantly developing PPT slides or Google slides. It feels like it is out of a movie. Additionally, flat structure is a joke. as a dev I never met my cto who worked one or two rows away. and it's not like this is the cto of google, it's a medium sized company with CONSTANT team pow wows.
- severely underpaid. even some employees there don't realize this. compare the salary of any role at p6 with the equivalent role at BAM or Citadel and youre losing out on at least $10-$15k a year (including healthcare, office perks, monthly nail appointments etc)
- why don't some employees recognize this? Because of HR Propaganda. this is one of the weirdest parts about peak6. basically they will constantly present this "lattice" ladder of improvement. "Just because it is a lateral shift does not mean it's bad!" ....what???
- hyper college like campus where you are expected to work within the culture and consider people there your only friends and treat "professors" (managers) like deities. don't believe me? go ahead and sign that offer letter. they purposely try to hire outside of the city theyre hiring for to curate an internal community. Walmart employs similar tactics when hiring managers.
- realistically, if you are going there to trade, I can't convince you to not join because theyre PR is strong. as a developer, I highly encourage you to keep applying elsewhere or to leverage their offer
- very little career development. when you leave p6 youre really banking on just the raw number of years of experience, not really what you actually did. I had friends who were hired 1+ years before who did not get promotions, raises, or lateral transfers of their choice.
- only hires female interns ( 😬)
