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1.0
May 12, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You can easily make friends here. Proximity to metro stop is good.

Cons

Not a good place if you want to grow. Interviews, technical interviews, challenges, taking you through the office, showing you the nice ping pong room, lounges, etc. Those things may seem nice, however, that is the end of it. Don't ever stop learning, motivate yourself, continue to better yourself outside of work while you are here. Since the workload is generally standard 40 hours, it is very nice to use flexible time you have got to strive for the better. The structure of a department where one senior leader has all the power with compensation, promotion, and manpower is ridiculously masked over with nice talk to your face. Or here you go, great job, go get yourself a free meal from Panera Bread! Or wait, we would love you to get a nice parking spot for one month!

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5.0
Jun 9, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Nice office space good environment

Cons

Expensive area for finding housing

3.0
Jun 19, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Company culture - the people are great. Decent benefits for a single person Interesting products and projects Work from home flexibility (2 days)

Cons

Compensation could be more competitive for the area. Unfortunately, they are taking advantage of the employer market right now, and offering salaries 6k less than what starting salaries the year prior was offered. Your manager definitely has the biggest impact on your time here, with little regulation or management above them. It will entirely shape your experience, for better or for worse. Decreased work from home flexibility - when I accepted the offer, my recruiter told me it was typical for employees to work from home around the November and December holidays, with no need to take all your vacation days to do so. At the last minute, this norm was mysteriously taken away, and depending on your manager, employees were told to either use their vacation days or be in the office the day before and after Xmas. Cozy. The AI strategy here is starting to finally look like an actual strategy, but before that it was in every sense of the world a mania and definitely shifted the culture in a bad way. Kudos to the people who attempted to take leadership and actually formulate our strategy. HR here is kind of useless, the team is extremely bloated. Onboarding was not a fun experience.

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