Pros: Most colleagues are hardworking, humble, and helpful people. They make the extremely bad work-life balance, low pay, and brainwash-style company culture slightly better.

Cons: Incompetent and inconsistent middle management. They recently hired some experienced managers who are great, but there are certain managers with extremely high attrition. I’ve observed whole teams of engineers leaving in under a year due to bad management, and they’ve done nothing to improve. To avoid having to work with bad managers, please make sure you ask: * “Are there any engineers that have worked on your team for more than 1 year? I would like to talk to them.” * Check their LinkedIn. If they’ve never been a manager before and their team has high attrition, they are most likely a bad manager.

Pros: Really interesting challenges, huge growth potential and ambition all over. In my experience, management wants you to succeed, so they try to recognize what you are good at and push you to do that even if it is not in the team you were originally assigned.

Cons: The time demanded of engineers tends to be very high, and things tend to feel reactive because planning happens mostly on the short term. The culture makes some people want to stay in the office longer than they should.

Pros: Go to this company if you have no other job offer.

Cons: This company disregards basic human decency in its work culture, and it is worse than Amazon because it tries to sell you a dream that will not be realized, while at the same time being probably more toxic than Amazon.