Pros
This place will pay your bills. You will pick up incredible skills here if you are motivated. If you can make it, you'll learn to operate under pressure very well. You will grow personally more than you would expect and most jobs you find after this place will seem like a walk in the park. Q2 forces you to develop skills (technical and soft) that other places won't.
Cons
If you want to understand Q2 culture, go and read the positive reviews on this site. Notice anything? Completely devoid of substance or tangible reason. Suspiciously high ratings for having so little motivation. Why do you think there would be so many of these vague yet very positive reviews? Interesting thing to ponder. It's reflective of a deeper issue - Q2 can't admit when they are wrong and refuse to listen to those who can help fix their problems. Instead they lean heavily on yes men who praise untalented and unqualified leaders. Q2 intentionally creates a hyper-competitive environment that erodes your professional and personal life. If you are competent, you are constantly held to the wall by a never-ending barrage of nonsensical priorities that make it impossible to deliver anything in an organized and correct way. They are the masters of the carrot on a stick ploy. Instead of encouraging teamwork between their talented employees, they play them off each other to try and squeeze more out of them. Everyone is an island at Q2. If you're incompetent and lazy, you at best accomplish your goal of glazing over for 9 to 12 hours a day. Good thing you aren't affected by people having meltdowns at and around you for a good portion of those hours. You may even want to leave a 5 star review about how you'll never be held responsible for your apathy. "Others do my work for me, it's great." Goals aren't the only fleeting part of this job - management is in a constant turnover cycle, all the way to the top. Getting a single initiative at this place across the line is an act of God. If leadership owned any of these mistakes it would be one thing, but guess who gets the calls when things go predictably wrong? You. Even if you can't fix it, get ready to be on a 6 hour call of silence until somebody who can fix it does (or says they have). The most unhealthy part about this job, and why I am motivated to leave this review, is because Q2 conditions employees to think that this type of environment is normal. It's not. Once you get out, you realize just how toxic and non-functioning this place is. The rhetoric is impressive and I have to hand it to them, they have finessed double speak in a way that many world leaders could learn from. I've held off leaving this review because I am just happy to be done with the place. But thinking of someone leaving a somewhat stable job for Q2 based off the positive reviews on Glassdoor bothers me. So here it is. A perspective from someone who got out. 10/10 would not do again.