Pros
Great work life balance, lots of mentorship and learning, cutting edge work, fast career growth, not too much hierarchy, culture of helping each other and collaboration
Cons
Lots of empire building, increasingly worse politics and reliability issues, people are laser focused on their promotions and not getting fired which erodes culture of learning and collaboration, every year they cut our pay and benefits, very team dependent. I’m incredibly lucky with my team but majority of teams here are toxic and bad and it’s hard to know how your experience will be. Try to stay in infra, and as deep in the stack as you can. Don’t work directly for MSL it’s an absolute shitshow. Don’t work for AI/ML infra or fb or instagram (any product roles/product infra). They’re the first to get hit by layoffs and they also have horrible leadership that whips people like slaves, lots of busywork and little credit, everyone is cut throat and fending for themselves
