Pros
INTURN is a great company if you're only looking from the surface. I will get into details later. People generally are very nice, friendly and easy-going. There are some of the smartest people I have met throughout the whole company. Everyone generally wants to do well, and work hard to make the company successfully. There isn't much drama going on inside the company, and everyone seems to get along with each other. There are usually company happy hours, and game nights at least once a month or so. There are some perks like other startups such as free snacks, beverages and one catered lunch per week. On the engineering side, everyone tends to get along and there isn't much ego. Our tech stack is React, RabbitMQ, WebSocket, Node Js, GoLang, PHP (most BE code written in) and Postgres.
Cons
Everything looks great from the surface if you just come in to work and get paid. However, if you start asking yourself how is this company being run? why things go the way they are? how am i gonna progress my career? what impact do I actually make? You will realize how many dysfunctional things going on here. First and foremost, the company is being run by very inexperienced (incompetent) leaders, and the worst part is they're not really passionate about the company beside creating a valuable company and making themselves richer. It's okay to be inexperienced, since everyone always starts from there at one point or another. However, not being passion and enthusiastic about what they do is not something you want to see from the leadership level. There isn't much direction/vision on the company, and people tend to be promoted if they suck up to their boss (obviously, this doesn't apply to all, and I believe some truly deserve it). There are many two or three years of experience people are a head/director of their divisions. What should have been done is to pay them market value instead of giving them a small raise with a fancy job title after paying them under market value for one year or so. There were many talented people left the company, and went to a much better company. At one point, a couple people left every other week. At the moment, I'm not sure how much longer we will be in business if we keep doing what we're doing.