Pros
Was a job that paid a salary.
Cons
At the time, could not commit to embracing fully remote work or to requiring in-office participation. Felt like my life was in flux: Couldn't make major life decisions because the company kept punting on theirs. Within a couple of weeks of starting, about a third of the benefits were rescinded. It felt like a cruel trick. That year, the plan was to make the bonus even more variable. Work that would've earned you 100% of your expected bonus was slotted to give you about 80% of that. Given the relative size of the bonus, this was going to translate to a 3% pay cut during times of high inflation. No thanks. Was told the role would be highly technical and would allow me programming opportunities in R and Python. But, in my group in my role, there was no real access allowed to either R or Python. You couldn't let R or Python touch the data; you couldn't save your code to git or anywhere that it could be used by anyone else. It was a terribly walled-off sandbox where good work went to die.