Pros: - Startup atmosphere combined with global reach - Collegiality and respect for individuals and ideas - Room for influence through personal initiative - Many different challenges in various fields - Work/life balance, freedom from micromanagement

Cons: - Hard to hold others accountable for quality control. - Middle management plays catch-up to initiatives from below and directions from above. - Little incentive to offer guidance or to take feedback on engineering matters.

Pros: Great choice of food. Good choice of coffee. Possibility to work a few hours per day and still meet or exceed expectations. Nice place to start your career (in the wrong way).

Cons: Mediocre middle management. Huge technical debt and still increasing steadily, as this is not a tech company. This makes being able to work productively very hard and often impossible. Over-engineered and fragmented infrastructure. Recruiters have sick incentives. No sense of ownership/accountability.

Pros: Food used to be good. Decent compensation for Amsterdam. Good office location. 29 days personal time off.

Cons: Politics - By far it's the worst place I've ever been. Managers promote people from their own countries. Due to this, a lot of managers and senior developers are very weak technically. Some do not even know basic computer science concepts. Retaliation - In general, there are very few opportunities for employees to give feedback about their managers. If you give anything negative, your manager will hunt you down and make sure that you suffer. Some people even got a PIP for giving critical feedback. Engineering culture - No proper design reviews, code reviews, or testing. Performance management - Show ponies are promoted and workhorses are neglected.