-tech stack is all over the place. They are working on it but it’s frustrating
-communication and sense of camaraderie not always present. Really depends on your team. If you need help you can definitely message anyone and they will certainly help you but you probably aren’t going to make real friends here unless you work in the office physically, maybe.
-pto is really bad, 22 days including sick time and you must accrue them. They only do 4 paid holidays where a normal company does around 11 so you might as well think of it as 2 weeks pto. For some that’s a plus to have it mixed in to the same bank, but again you must accrue it each year (their paid holidays are Thanksgiving, Christmas, new years and 4th of July)
-there’s a big emphasis on open source tools which means off branded tools that don’t work as good as slack, Gmail, or Zoom. On the business side they use Open Office
-The handbook describes reviews as having a potential for -5% to 5% raise. I guess -5% is better than being fired. In my experience 5% as a maximum pay raise is kind of low, especially in the tech industry
-It can be really frustrating to work on the software when there are 15+ repos with nondescript names like v1/v2 and several languages from ruby/rails to angular 1 to vue.
-there is a big focus on output which can be overwhelming especially if you are new or your team has a new person. They don’t ask you to do overtime but the pressure of achieving a certain output may lead you to putting it in anyway
-there isn’t a huge focus on user experience/user interface polish maybe since these things usually add a decent bit of time to creating things and not as much functionality. I don’t look at any of the products and think “that looks really nice”
-there are a lot of introverts here, which also good be a pro depending on who you are. Nobody’s trying to make small talk in meetings
