Pros
- "Unlimited" PTO: this gets used by managers to use as a carrot, they openly deny vacation requests to people if they believe they are not up to par. This policy also means you don't get any money when fired/laid off. - Pays the bills.
Cons
- Constant process changes make it impossible to keep up or feel stable. - Toxic RTO policies: forced in-office presence for no reason, literally everything is still online. - Frequent management turnover, no consistency in leadership or direction. - Horrible developer experience: internal tools are unreliable, reproducing issues is a nightmare, patching or backporting to production is painful and slow. - Toxic leadership culture: finger-pointing, lack of support, and poor communication from the top. - “Culture” is a joke: budget cuts turned team lunches into occasional bites, which pretty much sums up how little employees are valued. We also get to see the amount of money that gets spent on acquisitions with lavish events, but developers get raises denied for not being in the office 3 times a week. - Turnover is through the roof, and people are constantly quitting.