Follow some of the highly promoted corporate values at your peril -- pure selflessness and candor will get you in trouble during 360 review time. The 360 process is supposedly intended only to help you by providing valuable feedback, but it is used to cull the pack. Elicit feedback on your own well before the review process begins so you have time for course correction. There is high turnover, especially during the few months after the 360 reviews are published. Many are shoved, but many top notch people leave of their own volition. People who seem to be highly valued and an integral part of the work culture will one fine day simply disappear. They hire mostly specialists and maintain a very lean team. Competency alone does not suffice for job security. They will let people go once their project is completed if there is no immediate need for their specialty. They pay very well, but load engineers with high amounts of work. Because the dev team is kept so lean, there is little opportunity for moving to a different group and there are few growth opportunities. It is highly political in the management ranks and lots of jockeying for position, surprise surprise. That is par for any billion dollar company.
