Pros: The good salary, talented people, and a lot of learning.

Cons: Developers share the operational load, which can be nightmarish at times.

Pros: Get your hands dirty on work millions use on a daily basis. Unlike Microsoft, this company across the lake does ship code.

Cons: 1. Very twisted compensation package. You are evaluated based on salary + stock, which should be 'given' although not vested. The management sees that as 'you are well compensated' and would give away next to nothing for the hard work next year. 2. Terrible on-call. It's really a nightmare. Work-life balance is as bad as the worst story your friend told you. IT'S ALL TRUE. 3. Very bad benefit package. But you knew it when you got the offer, so can't complain too much about it. 4. Middle management is not transparent at all. You see the tree but not the forest. Sometimes they'd lie about promotion/compensation to get you to work extra on top of an already overloaded work-life balance. But it could be just my case.

Pros: Good to have on your resume. Great TC as compared to most companies, if you are consistently in the top bucket when they do talent review. Good if you can find a good manager and a good team.

Cons: No work-life balance. On-call is the worst, especially if you’re on critical teams. A lot of talk, not much action when it comes to doing actual feature work. Everyone wants to talk about it and insist on writing documents after documents to align with how many other engineers with infinite opinions to share. Disguised as a data-driven company, but most impactful decisions are usually just what leadership wants to do, especially in the recent fiasco with RTO and RTO with the CEO’s “judgment call.” Doesn’t matter what your performance is or your tenure with the company, they will not hesitate to screw you over if they want to.