Pros
- Wonderful people to work with
- Flexible work hours
- Decent pay for the market
Cons
- Direct management and top level management are not on the same page. They do not communicate with you if they have a problem with what you are working on.
- Constantly shifting priorities, change expectations for projects, and are more focused on getting new features out fast than well done, making older code brittle, hard to work with and prone to issues.
- No project managers means multiple bugs or features might be worked on at the same time duplicating work without the engineers knowing.
- Single point of failure on one or two people being available to help with issues because of overly complex code that is never given the time needed to actually fix things.
- If the company leaders feel like you are unneeded they will fire you for "performance" without any kind of previous communication or using tools to make sure a person aligns with expectations. You can have a great performance review and be fired a couple months later.