Pros
- Salary was pretty good - My stock tripled in value when they bought Joe Rogan - Food/perks were good
Cons
Be really careful what team you get placed on when you start. I got placed into the Financial Engineering org, which operates separately from the rest of the engineering organization. It's much closer to working at a bank than a traditional software engineering organization. Deadlines are very much done in the "waterfall" model you see in banks, rather than a normal agile sprint organization. Engineering is seen mostly as a cost center function to support financial analysts, and there's very little room for product feedback or creative input from the engineering function. As for the overall direction of the company I didn't really get it. I love the music product, but the podcast product is really terrible and is dragging down the rest of the product. All of the all-hands are the company leadership apologizing for terrible things Joe Rogan says. It's just not a place I felt proud of anymore.