Pros: Great atmosphere, ambitious, knowledgeable people.

Cons: Too many meetings sometimes make work counterproductive.

Pros: - Company's product is high impact (manages more money than any other single software, possibly). - Company's eagerness to fulfill "fiduciary duty" really rubs into you. - Company constantly makes the effort to make itself a modern "fintech" company in culture and tech stack, as opposed to its origin as an in-house software branch for a non-tech finance firm. - Somewhat a continuation of the last point — company is pretty open in terms of adopting new tech stacks.

Cons: Tech debt runs rampant without a firm incentive/structure to decrease it (but this can be said for many companies). Culture clash between “old school” business/finance-centric minds and “new school” fintech minds results in volatile engineering decisions at times. No central tech stack vision (every team to their own tech stack and best practices) is an unfortunate casualty of effort to adopt all the latest and greatest tech.

Pros: - WLB (You can usually take the day off early for doctor's appointments) - Stable job

Cons: - So much legacy technology; like no one uses XML in Spring anymore. - There is definitely racial bias when it comes to promotions, favoring white employees over people of color, so it's not a meritocracy. - Lack of career growth. - The company is very much against WFH, so if you're looking to work remotely, look elsewhere (they'll prefer you to be on disability for a few years rather than working remotely). - Too much office politics and too hierarchical. - Managers working on their own careers instead of the careers of their reports.