Pros
- Flexibility and WFH - Fun culture - Interesting/cool product
Cons
- Almost no product managers when I was there, which was right before the 2022 layoffs so I can't imagine it's improved. They had project management people doing all the product management, but not cutting their workload to make up for it, so effectively making them all do two full-time jobs concurrently. Obviously that's not sustainable, so the product management constantly fell to the wayside. Backlogs were a mess, tickets were never groomed properly, and "roadmaps" changed constantly or made no sense. And the products are way too complex and interconnected to have those kinds of basic problems in the development process. - They did a major layoff and switched to Agile right before the pandemic in 2020, and they never really got Agile right. Too many people resistant to it. Not only did every team have a different process, but even within those teams the "process" varied widely from person to person. Find me five different devs and I'll show you five completely different ways of dealing with a bug ticket. - Diversity and inclusion efforts were a joke because they were so pathetically underfunded and unsupported. At that point it's almost insulting that they even bothered to look like they "tried".
