Pros
The Chinese development office in Shanghai is rapidly expanding and this offers potential for career growth.
Cons
The opportunities for career growth are not balanced with compensation nor with realistic expectations from their overseas employees. For example: As a global company, meetings are scheduled across time zones. This is normal; however, meetings are frequently scheduled at absurd times, such as 4am or 1am on Saturday night. Software development life cycles are too aggressive because Chinese managers can't say no (and lose face) to their American or European boss. The human resources department is nearly useless. The HR Director is literally never available. She was given the job because she's friends with the Chinese operation manager, not because she's competent. The result is that standard HR requests, such as reimbursement for health care, go unanswered. Why does senior management allow this to happen? Because they're clueless (or don't care) about the operations in Shanghai.
