Pros
- Some good people (now mostly gone). - Interesting product suite (mostly in the Chinese proverb sense of "interesting" but that provides some degree of challenge to break the monotony). - Primarily remote engagements (I'm not much for travel).
Cons
- HR managed out of HK, no idea how things work in the rest of the world. - Chronically under staffed and over committed. - Old boys club in management. - "Borg" mentality with regards to Mergers and Acquisitions, extremely slow to actually integrate acquisitions in any sort of clean fashion. - Huge churn. - Ivory tower mentality from "Product House", complete absence of regard for advice from the field. - Apparent complete lack of QA for "gold" releases of products. - Pretty much zero career progression opportunity in the Engineering stream (unless you want to go into Pre-sales or Project Management). - No corporate cards, requiring that expenses be accrued on personal cards, reimbursement process is extremely slow. - Incompetent IT management out of the HK office. - No trust for employees who are not part of the "old boys club". - No follow through on the alleged large catalogue of training. - Work Life balance? What's that?
