Pros: - Amazing pay and benefits. - Chance to work on a variety of good projects used by a large user base worldwide, therefore you can learn a lot. - Very good on CV.

Cons: The company knows how to promote itself very well, but this can mask some harsh realities. - The illusion of a "transparent" flat hierarchy masks a top-down culture. Leaders can make cuts even for high performers, even without knowing them, talking to them or consulting their actual team at all. - Sometimes, micromanagement. - High turnover rate, with someone joining or leaving every other week. - There's always the need to mask or justify your "mistakes" (even when they're not so), due to a hidden blaming culture. - The company doesn't seem to be suited for humble or shy people, since someone might take advantage of them or walk all over them. Assertiveness seems the key to navigate the company culture. - Management/leadership seems to be searching for very excited individuals: if you're not always like that, you might be misjudged. - In general, company leadership culture prioritizes money above anything else, and this negatively affects the employees, the products and the end users (having a healthy user base has never been a priority, as far as everything is legal and makes money).

Pros: - The company has all sorts of benefits you can think of. - The pay is overall good compared to the European market and a complete outlier in Italy. - The colleagues are amazingly skilled, and mostly very nice people to work with, as people tend to help you if you ask. - The company is pretty much transparent towards its employees regarding major decisions, or at least, it feels like this.

Cons: - very poor work/life balance due to lots of work and very "ambitious" deadlines (to be able to deliver at the pace you are asked to, you will constantly have to put in extra hours, even if you are extremely efficient) - even if the company looks like it has noble purposes, at the end of the day, what it seems to mostly care about is money, so all of the decisions it makes are oriented towards maximizing earnings, with all the pros and cons that result from this - the company puts a lot of pressure on performance, and if you do not perform well, you are let go - senior employees are sometimes so busy that you will lack the opportunity to learn from them - you will have the feeling that some of the people you work with are solely trying to maximize their performances based on the metrics that are used to define performance

Pros: - Some of the greatest minds I could ever dream of working with - A chance to work on top-tier software products and challenges in a B2C environment - True and uncompromising attention to the wellness and satisfaction of the employees - Great salary and benefits, with a real and meritocratic growth possibility - Amazing work culture - A stunning office in Milan, Italy

Cons: - The only con I can thing of is that, in the (very unlikely) event that I was to move to another job, I'm afraid that the standard that Bending Spoons has set for what a company should be would be too high to make anything else satisfactory.