Pros
- The product has lots of potential. - Most startups only dream of having such big clients that Pactum already has. - Friendly colleges and nice atmosphere. - Lots of transparency to the high-level business strategy.
Cons
- Given the high stakes and big clients, I've been surprised by the lack of quality control in the product that's being built. There are no testers and there's very little automated testing. There's lots of duplicated code as multiple teams are implementing overlapping features. - Management decisions are often very disruptive, with people getting shuffled around from one team to another. Like, as soon as you start to feel like a team is sort of starting to work, the team gets dismantled and people are moved to other projects. (This is in great contrast to the high-level transparency of the general company business goals and decisions.) - The business domain is pretty complex and there's lots of confusion around what the client wants, when should it be delivered, etc. - There's an ever-growing pile of legal agreements and training materials one needs to work through before a new hire can start doing any actual work. Even if one carefully reads through all the documents (which I doubt anybody actually does), the sheer amount of them is just so big that you cannot possibly remember all the things you have signed.
