Pros
* Flexible time, nobody closely watches your hours * The offices under construction will be very well located and spacious * Part of a larger company now, jobs are safe in the short/medium term * Very talented and skilled people work there * Travel opportunities to Mountain View, New York City if that's your thing * Technical presentations on Fridays to learn new things * 5 days/year that can be used as paid sick days or as days off * 3 weeks of vacation per year * Employees come and go so you get to meet a lot of new people * The scale of things we work on is big, few companies see as many requests per second
Cons
* Horrible codebase: messy, confusing, poorly documented, poorly tested, and it's not getting better with more hacks pushed to production weekly * Project are very poorly managed, the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is up to, a lot of work gets rushed because of arbitrary deadlines but eventually ends up being discarded, dependencies aren't understood or planned for * Very little to no manager feedback, no personal development plans to further employee's skills * The company is split across several locations and we've moved several times over the last few months * Management is extremely secretive, employees are completely left in the dark and informed on a need to know basis only. It's getting even worse since the acquisition because the acquiring company distrusts its employees and is old fashioned * Half of the perks from the job ads don't exist (there are no board/card games in the office, there hasn't been any yoga in several months, no running/cycling groups, the ping pong table has been broken and used as a meeting table for about a year now) * A minority of the engineering team is very elitist and dismissive of others who they don't perceive as worthy as themselves * Management lives in an ivory tower, completely disconnected from reality: the morale is low, the noisy, cramped, fly infested temporary offices wore everyone down, people are disengaged, several high profile employees have left since the acquisition