Pros: - Smart people on your team to learn from. - 4 weeks vacation. - Remote work is now permitted (finally). - If you get the right manager, you can have a great experience.

Cons: They push everything down to your manager: raises, promotions, opportunities (aka cool projects), and feedback. If your manager sucks (and many of them do), your only option is to quit. They keep changing what they want to see in order to be promoted, but a few teams tend to get a majority of them (because their work aligns best with the criteria and they have a good manager). They like "yes" men. This means a lot of the projects you work on won't make any sense and won't make our customers happy, but people know how to get ahead and so just push the terrible ideas their managers give them (because their managers control their ability to make more money). The company, especially when Rian was around, really wanted to see its employees succeed. The last 6 months to 1 year, this all fell apart dramatically. It's become an "us vs them" mentality. The business and especially upper management/the CEO now seem to see their lower-level employees as peasants who should be thankful for the gift of getting to work there. They shoot down all suggestions to make life better for their employees on their anonymous forum (Speak Up) and stopped asking for questions through an anonymous AMA tool after repeatedly responding negatively. They pretend they want feedback, but they only want positive feedback (and they literally say this in meetings: they ask people who like working there to leave reviews and those who don't to "talk to their manager"). They fought remote work for a long time. They were desperate to discourage it and repeatedly acted like those who worked from home were lazy. Then COVID happened and suddenly the CEO is crying about how well the company did with the transition and how it will be permanent. If only you had trusted your employees and not seen them as out to get you.

Pros: Leadership has a strong and ambitious vision for the company, which makes it a satisfying and exciting place to work. Everyone on the team has a desire to do their best work. Great benefits (flexible vacation policy, work-from-home policy, RRSP matching after 6 months, etc). An inclusive work environment with strong anti-harassment policies. Management shares a lot of stats and metrics about the performance of the company during monthly town hall meetings.

Cons: Depending on the team and deadlines, there can be periods of intensity that might see you working evenings/weekends for a short period of time. However, this is not the norm.

Pros: Great learning experiences; everyone is very encouraging. Actually treated like a junior developer.

Cons: None, if anything is wrong I have the power to change it.