Pros
Remote work, mostly supportive and wonderful colleages
Cons
Low pay, terrible PTO, completely shameful lack of transparency as they keep laying off people as quietly and coldly as possible. I was laid off 2 days after rolling off a client project, and the laptop locked up minutes after my meeting with HR where a guy visibly read a script about why I was no longer going to have a paycheck. It's interesting to me that the most junior workers get cut when we clearly were contributing more to the company than the sales team who can't bring in clients or forecast how many workers the company should hire. Maybe that team should see some cuts since clearly performance isn't great there. Also, since the new investors came in and they changed the company's name, the entire vibe shifted. Sure it's totally remote, but once people started asking if it was cool if they worked from outside the US, management took that opportunity to butter up the staff about "near shore" hiring. Just an excuse to underpay labor in other countries to undercut the labor they already were underpaying. I'm glad I got some development experience in my 2 years there, but I should have been more actively searching for a way out. Don't get comfortable if you're still at Sparq. Instead keep that resume and LinkedIn fresh and ready for a job search because they will drop you as soon as you're not billing.