Pros: Overall, great compensation, which is heavy on the equity, but it's RSUs. Individual contributors and a large subset of direct and middle management are incredibly smart, capable, kind, and thoughtful. Remote-friendly, formerly remote-first. Cybersecurity is a growing field, and the work is interesting. There are opportunities for learning through your work, depending on your team.

Cons: Upper leadership now sees engineering as a cog in the wheel and is requiring that nearly all hiring be outside of the US, despite much of the engineering team being scattered remotely across the US. They also attempted to roll out a stack ranking system just before the layoffs. Diversity in engineering is non-existent. Engineering is never given enough time to address technical debt and scale issues, and is inundated by new and sometimes useless features and products that may drive ARR or retain high-paying customers. Upper leadership says they're committed to quality, but don't prioritize latent security issues and laid off over half of the QA staff even after July 19. Engineering strategy for quality focuses on reactive rather than proactive. Scope creep is constant. The SDLC is one-size-fits-all, or rather one-size-fits-one, and tons of overhead and checkboxes rather than helping with execution. There are no success metrics tied to products or projects, and therefore no accountability. Several products or projects have few customers, but are still kept running and funded by leaders who tell tall tales. The company has been around long enough that new leaders reinvent the wheel to make a name for themselves, building atop existing tech debt, and tenured, ineffective employees can continue to ride on early successes without being productive. Disagreeing with leadership and committing is a daily occurrence.

Pros: Benefits and pay are commensurate for what you will deserve. You will work for what you deserve, and you will see promotions for those who know what they are doing. You are truly part of the 1%.

Cons: There is a shift in how the culture is changing as the company is growing. Employee treatment is changing, and more "Managers" are being added to departments. Promotions will be given, but turnover is low, so you will wait.

Pros: Challenging, exciting, cutting-edge work.

Cons: Demand flexible hours and work.