Pros: Getting to work with world-class products. Great pay, great benefits, great people.

Cons: Be prepared to dive in and work sometimes long days.

Pros: - Chance to work with some of the smartest minds, depending on the team/project. - QA engineers usually get to use the latest products for free. - ESPP and benefits are good. - Decent maternity/paternity leave benefits.

Cons: Clueless middle management interferes too much and changes the scope of the work, leading to frustration. Favoritism in all forms is very prevalent. The favorites get the best projects, tasks, opportunities, and visibility, while the rest are made to slave away for the betterment of the managers and their favorites. QA gets treated very badly, and most of the time, it’s because of the middle management who volunteer their engineers for all kinds of tasks out of scope from traditional QA roles. Promotions are based on favoritism rather than by performance or value added. Management is solely focused on kingdom building, and this has resulted in lax hiring. No respect is given to truly knowledgeable people. Promotion is only given to people who can talk loudly, even though it’s just empty noise. HR will always side with management, and you will get screwed during the review process if you rub anyone in management the wrong way.

Pros: Excellent products to be working on. Excellent tools available for testing. Ridiculously talented individual contributors to work with. Cafeteria has decent food at a decent price. Great perks with occasional beer bashes and film screenings.

Cons: Tiresomely long hours. Short deadlines bordering on instant burnout. Impossible to make weekend plans, as weekend work is routinely demanded on extremely short notice. The aforementioned perks are first come, first serve, and chances are you will not be able to take advantage anyway because of last-minute, emergency testing that needs to be performed. Management will make you feel guilty about taking your family vacation. Management will make you apologize for your child's medical emergency pulling you out of work. Management will gladly work from home, yet scoff at the idea that you can attend a doctor's appointment mid-day.