Pros
- Salary is above average, especially for new joiners - The product is really amazing, you will learn a lot - Open source friendly - Flexible time - They provide stock options. - Direct mangers do care about you. Directors and above might not
Cons
- Salary for new joiners is greater than for who ever is already working there - Used to be flexible around remote working, now it requires you to leave within commute distance for their office - All the business is centred mainly in Europe. If you are not in Europe you are expected to work extra hard just to keep up with domain knowledge from an expanding list of products - Be ready for a change in company policy without communication. One day it might be you are not allowed to get your phone after 2y, the other day, hires will only happened on a city X, the other they will change how much you earn during on-call, the other they say they will support your relocation than drag the process for MANY months then only offer job on a really weird city, the other they might remove your access for some random reason while you are on vacation without a clear policy on how to get it back - A lot of really good talents are leaving the company, it's a terrible sign - Communication is laughable. Don't expect to have things well documented, caos when trying to find any sort of documentation, you will find loads of out-of-date articles, and policies that are not in use - Not a clear career opportunity. Unless you are working in Kafka, you are less likely to get promoted. They tried setting up a job band and framework, but you can see the people who got promoted did not fit all criteria there - You can only exercise part of the stock options on some rounds with weird conditions. It might change when they do the IPO