Pros: The total compensation is good, and you work with really smart people. There aren't many benefits for New Zealand.

Cons: The company uses Stack Ranking now, so it's you against your teammates (someone has to be at the end of the curve and put on performance review or fired). You won't receive any performance feedback before it happens.

Pros: Work from home. Good compensation.

Cons: Twice-yearly performance reviews. Culture has been dead.

Pros: - Base salary is decent for NZ. - Mostly informal, Aussie-style company culture. - Lots of nice people. - Opportunity to learn about many different domains and systems. - Sensible policies around autonomy and flexibility. - Amazing paid parental leave.

Cons: - Stacked ranking - Company expects upward growth from all non-senior engineers, but puts the onus totally on you to prove your 'impact' across a wide range of categories at the next level before you have a chance to get promoted. At twice-a-year calibration, the higher ups then look for reasons not to promote you. - A fair bit of bureaucratic BS at times, but to be expected at a company this size. - No SREs. If your team owns anything vaguely critical, you will have to go on-call and be constantly paged and woken up at night. This is unsustainable health-wise, and the extra pay for on-call is meager. - Unlimited time off in the US; limited everywhere else.