Pros: Loved the people, and the snacks! A great company to do an internship with!

Cons: None I can think of. The pay is fairly good, but maybe not as good as some other companies might provide.

Pros: Competitive pay. Stable job in a recession. Excellent benefits. Great workplace: awesome building, amazing snacks, summer party and perks. Very helpful and knowledgeable peers. Software ownership: you own the product you develop. Fast-paced, client-facing software development.

Cons: Incompetent middle management. They suffer from tunnel vision and tend to bully. Lots of fault-finding, little credit given. Software/architecture is ancient. A lot of mediocre proprietary software which is essentially re-inventing the wheel. Unemployable elsewhere after a few years. Fairly long work hours. Flex-time/work from home not encouraged, though they exist on paper. Few, if any, opportunities for professional growth. After 5 years as a developer, you might be promoted to team lead. Not a technology company. It started by a trader for traders and is run by wannabe traders.

Pros: The culture is work-hard, play-hard, with much thought put toward philanthropy and the environment. These altruistic goals really come from the top-down. There are great snacks and a great office/environment. A lot of smart people are present all across the board. The location is convenient. Great connections throughout the city are due to the CEO being a former mayor. There are lots of educational opportunities outside of the field, such as financial training for R&D folks and technical training for business folks. Payment is offered for further education. Sports teams are available to play on. Great healthcare and a great 50% match on 401k are provided, along with generous pay raises and bonuses. An awesome training program exists for fresh-out-of-college hires. It is 12 weeks long and has fantastic instructors for advanced C++ and JavaScript, plus a lot more. Great networking opportunities are also included. It is really well run. The whole company works like clockwork, from facilities to help desk to sales to software to the data warehouse. Quite impressive.

Cons: A lot of proprietary software development tools. A lot of customers don't like change. Customers are paying a steep price, and thus often have a stronger say than they should.