Pros: Quality over deadlines Highly supportive of the programmers. Solving real problems in networking. Management also writes code, all the way up to the CTO.

Cons: Niche language used to describe the software. Custom build environment

Pros: Collaboration, teamwork, fun environment, great values.

Cons: None that I can think of.

Pros: - Great for the self-motivated ones. There's so much work to do that gives a lot of opportunity and freedom to make an impact. - Managers are hands off, and you are given the freedom to design your own solutions and manage your own work. - Compensation strongly reflects performance in the company, based on a review. Raises and new RSU grants together can be 2-3X a new grad's starting comp after a few years. - Good engineering culture and not a lot of office politics. - Flat engineering culture; everyone's opinion is heard.

Cons: - Tools are so slow that it requires context switching to get anything done. - Company is cheap with hardware prototypes and user servers. Tools being slow requires lots of multitasking, but multitasking effectiveness is limited by lack of disk storage and test devices. - Lots of recent turnover across the engineering team, short-staffed especially on the platform team. Lacks a number of engineers familiar with the codebase. - Can be hard for new engineers to mingle and find their niche. - For more experienced folks, more time is spent on maintenance, customer escalations, and meetings than actual coding. - TACC is a turnoff as it is not transferable to other companies. - Flat engineering culture; there are certain areas of the codebase where there are weak senses of ownership and it is unclear who is supposed to be maintaining it.