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Can you mention examples of toxic practices to better see the situation?

• FirmwareBurner 3y ago
  Heavily depends on manager/team/business unit, but the main issue is usually insane workload and insane deadlines on projects that are already late from the moment they start because sales/marketing/execs promised $MAJOR_CUSTOMER something totally unrealistic will be delivered. The churn level is high. People are constantly fired, let go, or leave after their relocation bonus expires if they don't see any promotions after their tolls. Lots of "Game of Thrones" backstabbing going on behind the scene inside the org between managers, each trying to get the spotlight for the successes on them to get that sweet promotion, while disregarding their team and workers as disposable commodities that can always be replaced by overseas workers if they don't fall in line and deliver on the impossible deadlines. The difference in pay between junior and seniors/managers is huge, so they dangle that carrot in front of you so you put up with everything just for the chance of hopefully making it to that level one day.
• lnsru 3y ago
  There are insane deadlines in semiconductor industry. We started many times already being too late to make main customer happy. I was able to catchup couple times doing 55-65 hour weeks. But it gets slowly normal practice instead of exception. Tooling is also very specific. There are gazillions of scripts written in all possible languages for all sorts of semiconductors. Some colleagues will happily backstab you not sharing information about their tools.
  • FirmwareBurner 3y ago
    >Some colleagues will happily backstab you not sharing information about their tools Oh yeah, that sounds familiar.