Data Team: Unprofessional work environment. A career trap!
Pros
Working with remotely. Compensation is competitive.
Cons
Full of work politics and discrimination. So much fuss but very little production. The technical stack for backend services is severely outdated and poorly maintained. You literally will work using a stack that no one else uses or is actively moving away from. Once you leave, you will have to go through an aggressive upskilling plan to get back on track! Management is inexperienced and very unprofessional. Don't be surprised if you experience the following cultural issues: Team leads or senior members may ask you to delete unit/e2e tests simply because they expose problems in the existing code. An individual may ask you to work on a feature for months, only to take over and submit the work under their name in the final days. You are asked to perform technically incorrect tasks and requests for documentation are refused. You are often the only one attending stand-ups, with the rest of the team coordinating tasks via internal channels like Slack. Demos are shown to higher management with static content and hardcoded systems that are supposed to be dynamic. The team spends a whole year building a system without verifying its core functionality works. You get 21 annual leave days but are actively prevented from taking half of them. You work for weeks on a feature without being able to test or run your work because a stable test environment is not prioritized. There is no work-life balance at all. You will work very long hours without any appreciation, and requests for breaks or leave are routinely denied. Working 10-12 hours a day is normalized, representing a total lack of boundaries between work time and personal time in a remote environment.
