Pros: Benefits, growth opportunities, trying for a healthy culture, fancy office.

Cons: Hiring is limited in Australia, and expansion happens mainly in India and the US. Culture heavily depends on location. Performance assessments can be unfair.

Pros: Open culture, generous perks: free food, fitness classes, flexi-hours, great hardware.

Cons: There hasn't been much innovation in the company. It has grown by acquisitions, and there hasn't been any in-house development of a new product in the last decade. It's mostly running on the money brought in by the JIRA machine. Middle management lacks people management skills. There is a lot of groupism and favoritism. If you are part of 'the group,' you'll get promoted, but if you don't 'show loyalty,' you'll be sidelined and forced to move out. It's a classic case of long-term employees being promoted to middle management without any training. In my team, one couldn't question the decisions of the leads. This was purported as a 'team value.' There was a lot of micromanagement. Your disagreements could be highlighted as 'not playing as a team' during 1-1s. It wasn't an 'Open company' to me. One's comments on the internal wiki or messages in the public (internal) chat rooms could be used negatively during annual reviews by the lead.

Pros: WFH is still an option.

Cons: Apex is incredibly damaging. It is time-consuming, causes mistrust among employees, and is not transparent or fair. I work until early hours of the morning and over weekends, and I don't know if it will be enough or not this time around. There is just no guarantee what will come back from those calibration sessions. I am sacrificing my health, life, and time with my family, and I may or may not have a job after this coming Apex. It is not worth it.