A place to get paid well but not for a long-term career
Pros
- High compensation & incentives for high-performers - Good employee perks & benefits (free lunch!) - Lots of cash/budget within the business to do things quickly and to a high standard - In certain areas there is an unusually high degree of autonomy (sometimes a good thing, sometimes a terrible thing)
Cons
- Major cross-cultural challenges - 'Good' performance based on being a 'yes' person and just executing work even if the quality & reasoning is poor - Capped career progression for non-Chinese/non-Mandarin speakers - Widespread discrimination & poor/unfair working practices/policies - Significant working time zone spread & lack of focused headquarters (is it LA, Seattle, Singapore, Shanghai!?) which leads to long-working hours - Bureaucratic processes & process owners - No investments in people development and actually helping employees to build required skills. If you can't already do something (or at least pretend to be able to), you're out.