Pros
1. Employee discount in HKTVmall 2. Cost effective staff catering 3. Monitor x2 4. Acceptable budget for some projects 5. Deadline is fine usually 6. Some employee engagement activities
Cons
1. No/ poor code review practice 2. No coding convention 3. Manual testing 4. No /low unit test coverage 5. Useless and outdated documentation 6. Bad cooperation between different teams 7. Legacy tool, code and frameworks. A lot of development debt 8. Not completely adopt container technology. Developing in different environment is painful 9. Filling task done each day in an Excel file and submitting it to Finance Department is meaningless 10. Goal, requirement and design of system can get wrong. Do thing wrong + do wrong thing 11. Employee engagement activities and staff meetings always hold outside office hours 12. Manual deployment for some projects 13. Deadline can be harsh 14. Lack of knowledge and code base sharing within the company. Knowledge loss when staff leaving 15. Penalty of no yearly bonus for "performance"