Pros
This was my first job out of college and it was a great career stepping stone in the sense that even Jr engineers were given more responsibility than they normally would get at other companies such as taking full ownership of certain features and a level of design freedom as well (for better or for worse, probably not a great idea for the company but good experience for the engineer). -Most folks have a decent work/life -Great people -Lots of cross role collaboration, get to work with a variety of roles like PMs, QA, UX Researchers, designers, etc. -Starting to use newer and more interesting technologies on the microservices side -Free lunch 2 days a week
Cons
-Parent company seems to be getting more demanding on feature delivery -Compensation wasn't very good (when I was there, I hear it's since been addressed) -Felt like they treated us as children sometimes (no alcohol at holiday parties, banning certain games from the office) though these might have been policies of the parent company -It seems the better you are at your job the worse the work/life gets -Management structure makes zero sense. Some people have managers that they'll never work with or be on the same team as -Zero reward for quality work. Promotions seem more based on seniority rather than work performance. Small pay bumps or bonuses would be better than fighting for months for a promotion