Pros
No frills company - rarely attend superfluous soft meetings. Great place to work out of college. I work on a great team and really like my manager.
Cons
Low pay, cheap company: Starting salary was low for a technical job in the SF Bay Area. I've now been at QS for 1.25 years and haven't received the raise/promotion we are promised after a year, yet my responsibilities and duties have skyrocketed the last 3 months. Didn't give out stipends for WFH supplies, wouldn't even buy me a travel monitor. Not sure where all the budget for Halloween parties and DayAways went, but it sure didn't go to helping out employee productivity. Exploitative treatment of the summer interns: Interns were supposed to work for three months and then get hired. Internships were "extended" for a few months, during which we worked hard to train our intern to operate semi-independently. Found out that we won't be hiring them all after all due to a COVID related "hiring freeze". If you check the QS website, we're *definitely* still hiring right now. The whole thing feels shady, dishonest and disappointing. Company as a whole has no culture: What little culture we did have took a nosedive during COVID. We have a monthly trivia game and a company-wide email, that is IT. QS has never been one of those warm-and-fuzzy tech companies, but at this point I am just interacting with names on a screen every day. I have a personal/non-work relationship with literally 1 person. QS should have a Hackathon, make some funny slack channels, ANYTHING.
