Pros
- Brilliant employees. I was constantly impressed by the caliber of the individuals I had the pleasure of working with. - Plethora of opportunities to advance your career and take on new challenges. - Fascinating problems. The work was deeply interesting and and deeply rewarding to solve. - Good office perks (food, gym, etc). - Fun parties.
Cons
- Toxic executives. A constant "my way or the highway" attitude. Engineers estimate development would take a month? How about you make that take a week. You will work weekends to make this happen. - Very little work from home flexibility. One WFH day a week was very welcome, but we were obviously able to maintain a high level of performance when working from home during the peak of the pandemic, but that did not matter. The CEO wants people in the office. - The CEO. Tom definitely knows how to run a successful business, but the ways that he made that happen were terrifying at best and downright abusive at worst. Very dismissive of valid employee suggestions/feedback during company updates, unable to admit that he was wrong, and his direction for the company would shift with the slightest inkling of a new idea - often times failing in glorious displays of wasted engineering effort.