Pros: - Good work culture - Great people to work with - Opportunities for growth

Cons: While the workload for international employees is as intense as for US employees, their compensation is much lower. It totally makes sense that pay is not as high as for employees in the US based on the local labor cost of each country. However, right now it is not even as competitive as local tech companies, while the work-life balance is worse than for many local companies for international employees.

Pros: Benefits were excellent. Pay scales were great. Management was okay.

Cons: During the downturn, when companies were letting people go, they laid off a bunch of us. That was hard, but I could have swallowed it. But then I saw a job opening for Senior Developers in Canada for Affirm – soon after letting us go. Really?

Pros: - Away days - Company actually cares about the financial well-being of their employees - Good severance package during the layoffs

Cons: Developer experience is the worst I've experienced in my career – far too much to list here and I don't want PTSD. Management is largely clueless, devoid of actual tangible goals. Every project/initiative is reactive as opposed to proactive, leading to constantly scrapped and replaced projects. Tons of red tape prevent developers from getting the real beneficial changes done ahead of the product development curve, leading to an ever-escalating amount of tech debt.