Pros
Good benefits, generally good humans all around, remarkably few A-holes. Big global company with decent support network for getting folks situated into this scale of work.
Cons
The chain of command is rather silly, and Tobi Lutke putting himself at the top as CEO and CPO while also unwavering in his role as founding engineer-in-chief is just too much. Engineering leads design systems within project parameters and fight for alignment through multiple layers of leadership, only to have Tobi take the entire project in a different direction or scrap it all together. The end result is hundreds of individual contributors being blocked for weeks at a time while waiting for their next few minutes with Tobi, and middle leadership layers being relatively powerless to provide real direction or agency. That makes for some pathetic middle leadership who may support an initiative but refuse to endorse it so the people below them have to sort it out with the people above them directly. This is neither a fast-moving or nimble org, and efforts to empower GSD (or, “get s$#% done”) generally have the reverse effect.
