Pros
- Niche market, great long term outlook with company. - Smallish company, which enables transparency since there are few levels between worker and executive. For example, I had the opportunity to have meaningful conversations with executives that had influence on our direction and even develop friendships. - Rapidly modernizing tech stack. Has integrated React for front end and introduced various AWS services for backend. The work experienced gained at this company is very applicable to the rest of the SE market. - Great place to begin career. If I were to compare the tech stack to video game mechanics, I would say easy to learn, hard to master, which provides plenty of opportunity for you to grow as an engineer and gain more responsibility. - At least in my team, my manager was a good listener and my coworkers were friendly, which allowed for a positive remote work experience. - My schedule was very flexible. I felt no pressure to work the rigid, generic 9-5. I felt free to take a gym break in the middle of the day.
Cons
- Compensation seems standard relative to the Pullman area, however, now that METER has opened itself up to the remote world (which is good because it opens the door to a much larger pool of talent!), as has most of the United States, pay is not competitive.