Avantages
- Probably being paid for doing nothing much at work.
Inconvénients
1) Communication barriers. ( I was assigned to the development team based in Shenzhen even though I was hired as a London employee. All the team members can't speak English and only speak Mandarin in all the meetings) 2) 0 flexibility to change teams. (Due to the bear market, the company is freezing hiring and laying off engineers, which means I will be stuck in the current team for a long time with another London-based English-speaking engineer). 3) Terrible code quality (There isn't a single unit test in a whole monolithic repository that's handling the DeFi backend logic. I won't be confident in using the buggy DeFi wallet app that's handling crypto money) 4) Always out of the loop due to the time difference. Hard for me to attend the standup meetings as the Shenzhen team members have standups at 3am GMT every day. 5) No learning opportunities. All the knowledge-sharing sessions are conducted in Mandarin and the London engineers are completely left out. 6) Voice not being heard by upper management. I've raised my concerns but they were all ignored by the managers and all the things mentioned when I signed the contract were false promises.