Hiring Freeze means you are not in control of your career at the company. You either get your boss's job or you get reassigned. Back end technology is quite frankly embarrassing Huge disconnect from decision makers and front line employees, leading to absurdist policies we're just told to accept Extremely siloed, everyone is happy to tell you that's not their job without being able to tell you whose job it is Knowledge bases are constantly shifting, converted to a new format, no longer up to date, not actively or automatically managed. At the IC level, you are a cog in the machine and will be reassigned to wildly different teams with almost no notice.