Pros: Cares about career growth. Fun environment.

Cons: Could be working on an outdated project.

Pros: Location, benefits, workspace, equipment, work-life balance

Cons: Project scope, language, and framework were changed right after I started. Old and crufty codebase with poor documentation, inconsistent code style rules (mix of semicolons and non-semicolons in a JS project), and inconsistent file structure. Manager once told me to get back to work after I spent 8 minutes in Slack chat discussing the pros and cons of a few terms related to testing. I got told that I should be coding, but had also been told that I needed to be more collaborative 5 minutes earlier in the same conversation. Typical "read my mind" sort of criticism from that manager. Manager seemed surprised that I posted a Confluence doc about the vertical whitespace rules that I and 2 team members agreed on. The project was many years old, and no one had written down style rules. Manager said, "I thought all languages wanted zero whitespace." I had no response to this; I was just flabbergasted. This is one of the most WTF statements I've ever heard from a manager. I told a colleague about it (someone with close to 20 years of experience), and his response was one word: "Run." For an example of vertical whitespace in a modern JS project, see packages/react/src/React.js in the React GitHub repo (not allowed to link it here). Team member told me, "Your question was inappropriate" after I told them that the condescending response I got to a question was inappropriate. When someone tells you you are being inappropriate, you don't say "no, u"; that's rude. This team has issues.

Pros: Working environment is good. Unbalanced work-life as it is common in India. Use all the latest technology for productivity.

Cons: Less hike. High variable components in salary, such as stock, can be removed completely by the company any year, which makes your overall salary half for that year. Do not join the company considering stock as part of your salary at all.