Pros
Free bagales on Friday and nice train view from parking lot.
Cons
After Vista purchase, company has become haunted house here in San Diego. It is really a challenge to find people in the office. If you count the ratio of people vs empty cubes, you will be surprised and it also shows that how this company was great once upon a time and everyone either left or company got downsized. Starting from Vista take over till end of 2014, new owner Vista made sure, transition happened as painful as possible. I mean come on, we got to know more update from local news than management about possible next plans including headquarter transfer to Austin. How in the world, a management can be so irresponsible. To stop the bleeding and to stop people from jumping ship, Vista declared the retention bonus, hoping some important don't leave, but they forgot that you cannot held people for money long time. CTO who sent out email to everyone that if you remain with company till end of 2014, you will get retention bonus and guess what he himself jumped the ship. Can you believe this ? To save money, they sent all the software development to China and US offices has become just support centers. If you want to write code, then this is not a place for you. If you are applying for Software Engineer or IT position, make sure you talk to HR and hiring manager about your position and duties, because chances are they have advertised fake job description stating they are doing development here in US, but it is not true. If you are a social person and like to work in friendly environment, then this is not a place for you. There is nothing friendly remained after Vista takeover. Everyone is in race to save their position and playing politics at its best. There is very less hope that San Diego location will remain very long, they may transfer everyone to Austin very soon.
