Things that my peers/managers have told me across 9 years working at Bay area public companies in groups that make 100's of millions in revenue
* Things could be worse
* Everywhere it's the same
* Someone's good time management is someone else's bad time management
* The worst behaved wins - be the rhinoceros you wish to see in the world
* It doesn't matter what you do, it matter what your bosses boss thinks you do
* It is very likely that hiring and headcount is the only thing your boss cares about
* We should stop giving RSU grants for people below <insert level>
* Everyone can write code, I could easily write a million lines of code if I wanted to
* It doesn't matter if you do not get a promotion, you aren't going to take this money with you when you reach heaven < some story about judas and jesus that i did not understand >
* If you embarrass me in a meeting, remember that you aren't going to be present when your promotion packet comes up for review
* We follow the best development practices - but we also have 3 dozen AWS accounts and manually generated security credentials we message each other in slack
* etc etc etc
The least troublesome part was delivering - the hardest was accepting that US work culture confuses leverage for intelligence
* Things could be worse * Everywhere it's the same * Someone's good time management is someone else's bad time management * The worst behaved wins - be the rhinoceros you wish to see in the world * It doesn't matter what you do, it matter what your bosses boss thinks you do * It is very likely that hiring and headcount is the only thing your boss cares about * We should stop giving RSU grants for people below <insert level> * Everyone can write code, I could easily write a million lines of code if I wanted to * It doesn't matter if you do not get a promotion, you aren't going to take this money with you when you reach heaven < some story about judas and jesus that i did not understand > * If you embarrass me in a meeting, remember that you aren't going to be present when your promotion packet comes up for review * We follow the best development practices - but we also have 3 dozen AWS accounts and manually generated security credentials we message each other in slack * etc etc etc
The least troublesome part was delivering - the hardest was accepting that US work culture confuses leverage for intelligence