Pros
- Great pay and benefits. Office is super nice, free lunches are great, massage rooms, exercise rooms, places to nap, meditate, etc. - Some engineering teams (particularly revenue, platform) seem to have their act together and are capable of progress. - Work-life balance is pretty good. I rarely work more than 40 hours a week. I often work from home.
Cons
- Execs and senior management have no freaking clue where to lead the company. The executive team has seen almost 100% turnover in the last year -- there is now literally a different group of people leading the company. Most executives and managers are young and are in high level leadership positions for the first time in their careers, and predictably have no idea what they're doing. - There is no legitimate product strategy for user growth and retention, other than unfounded optimism that something might happen. Good ideas appear every hack week, but none of them make it into the product. Teams are encouraged to A/B test everything and have to show overwhelmingly positive metrics to ship to 100%, even for the most common sense stuff. This all results in a mediocre product that doesn't change and shows no forward progress. - Career growth as an engineer is very difficult. Getting a promotion involves excessive groveling to higher-ranked engineers who are not incentivized to help anyone besides themselves grow. The title you get when you join the company will probably be the title you have when you leave.
