Pros
High cash awards (formerly paid in stock) Unplug days (extra days off above our annual leave) Gorgeous office in downtown Budapest A healthy work-life balance is encouraged Colleagues all around the world are friendly and nice to work with Working on Mac is default but Ubuntu and Windows are also available options Background (IT, HR, facilities, corporate in general) is quite alright Management talks to us like partners rather than minions
Cons
My team is torn between Hungary and California, we have very little time together and relationships between teammates are mostly professional (aka people don't talk to each other) My team is divided in terms of technical priorities and there is no effort to resolve this Huge technical debt ever since Hortonworks and legacy Cloudera merged, which is affecting my day-to-day work Speed is often prioritized over code quality ('just get it out the door') Little to no technical guidelines or conventions (I only know about my org) I have to work without the support of an architect even though I need it