Pros: - Junior hires are given a good load of responsibilities. - Salary and bonuses are good. - Free snacks are provided (better than Microsoft, worse than Google). - Customers are satisfied. Having worked at other companies, the high level of customer satisfaction is abnormal and deeply rewarding. - New York City is much more fun than San Francisco, Boston, or Seattle, but that's just my opinion ;).

Cons: - No offices. - Time not as flexible as other tech companies. - Expected to be on call after hours. For IT/networking/systems people, this may be normal, but as a software engineer, I was not used to this. - Culture of kissing up to higher levels (worse than other tech companies, but better than most non-tech corporate environments). Many superficial efforts are made to combat this, but it is still present. - No company cafeteria leads most people to eat at their desks rather than with co-workers. - No whiteboards (maybe that's a pro for some people).

Pros: 1. Good holiday and paid day off. 2. Benefits (salary, insurance, 401k) and work hours are generally good. 3. Nice office with free drinks and snacks.

Cons: 1. Most of the time, I'm doing maintenance work rather than working on something new and exciting. 2. High taxes and living expenses in New York City. 3. Nonsensical recruiting. 4. Good training for non-programmers, but it's too long and useless if you already have a lot of programming experience.

Pros: Great work-life balance, strong engineers, and good collaboration.

Cons: Pay is not as competitive as it should be.