Airbnb

People are caring and respectful. Diversity and globalism are wonderful. There's lots of flexibility to direct your own work, as long as you're getting the job done within expectations. There's lots of room to innovate, within the guidelines of your project of course, as long as you get buy-in from the team. People care; you just need approval for things.

Gender balance in engineering needs improvement, as it does in most places.

Understanding expectations takes several months. Getting things done that require any commitment from other teams is really hard, as it has to bubble up to management and get approval. You're not going to get that easily if they are already on some other release track (always!). Patience and tenacity are key.

Code is complicated, build times are long, and the initial learning curve is super steep.

Improve the process (beyond just filing a ticket) so that individual contributors have a clearer path to raising an issue and requesting a needed improvement or accessibility remediation when help from another team is needed.