Pros: - Generally friendly work environment. - Encouragement to own your code (few examples where legacy code was "off limits"). - Openness to branch out and experiment in your work. - Somewhat flexible work hours. Team dependent, but most managers are usually okay, especially if you have special circumstances. - Reasonable salary with decent growth (in the experience of a new grad up to 5 years of experience at least). - Opportunities for good stock and cash bonuses (can possibly add 50-100% to salary after a couple of years, in my experience). - Pick Windows, MacOS, or Ubuntu for your laptop (you're remoting to a Linux server for most stuff anyway). - Improvements to development tooling infrastructure are improving (though subject to all the strains that come with medium-sized companies). - Remote work setup is technically very good when you can't be in the office (provided you have a good internet connection).

Cons: - Employees in different time zones can cause strain on teams/projects. - There is some expectation of work outside of typical work hours, mainly due to time zones. Fortunately, this doesn't necessarily translate to "overtime" work, as you could just flex your work hours. - Health benefits are so-so, at least I'm told from more senior Canadian employees. - Diversity is somewhat lacking, a plague on the industry as a whole.

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: - Top engineering staff - No egos - Emphasis on quality - Confidence in engineers to drive development - Great industry and customer relations - Biannual peer review - Great collaboration between development sites - Friday beer/food social - Opportunities to work in different areas

Cons: - Occasionally slow to reimburse expenses.