Pros
* Perks - free food, endurance, medical care, multi-sport card, local gym, parental leave, multiple yearly offsite ... (list is long)
* Community - There is a interest group for everything, board games, marathon running, ping pong. Organizing such meetings is awarded as community contributions.
* Smart people - Nothing boosts your development as working with people smarter then you.
* Performance measured by results - No-one will blink an eye if you will leave work early, work from home for a day or two, or just spend whole day in gaming room. Of course when going for promotion or bad planning can lead people to overwork but it my experience it's employee decision
* You can always switch teams - feeling like changing something or burned out? There are pretty loose rules about changing teams.
* Self-Development - there are lots of internal courses, options for guidance to learn how to get better at your job, or skills you want to develop.
* Focus on individualism and Collaboration - Your given hard open problems that you are directly responsible for. There is a big focus on collaborating with other teams to reach agreement.
Cons
* Slow development cycle - When working on problems on such scale, there is lot of time spent on design and no much on coding.
* Project Management - Every team decides on their own project management method which can lead to mismanagement and chaos.
*Possible location + project mismatch - There are a lot of interesting projects and available locations, but there is no guarantee that you can find a match on both. There could be a great project but not available in your location. There is no option for remote work (in usual cases).
