Pros: - Young engineering culture, with lots of smart people from good schools. - Engineers are very open to new, blazing-edge technologies, offering lots of stuff to learn. - There's a general emphasis on transparency and collaboration. - Everyone is motivated towards a common goal. - Plenty of opportunities to reach out to the open source community, give talks, etc. - Leadership is super tech-savvy and accessible, especially to the engineers. - People are generally super cool.

Cons: - This basically becomes your life. You're expected to answer calls and fix things after hours, even if you're not technically the person on-call. Engineers here talk and think about their jobs after hours, on weekends, on vacations, etc. If you're not part of this almost-religious culture, then you probably won't be promoted. - Engineers are focused more on implementation than on the user interface. We have UX people, but they generally don't chime in on every single feature. Time and again, I've been shocked at how frustrating it is to use our own product.

Pros: Great coworkers, and Apache Spark is a technology that's growing a lot. The Spark Summits are great. The sales organization is doing a great job.

Cons: Management in engineering is highly dysfunctional. There is a core crew of people who are close with the founders and are highly valued; the rest of the engineers are not. Additionally, when concerns about management are brought up, they are quickly swept under the rug, or you are told to shut up. Upper management has stated that it is actually a good thing that some female and older engineers left because it is normal. Some of the non-favored engineers are publicly humiliated in front of the entire organization by being told that they are "not the best people". One particular manager has a habit of telling people they are "childish" or "unprofessional" when people disagree with him, and he is protected and highly favored by all the executives. At the same time, the younger engineers put up a facade that it is a great organization to work for because they go eat pizza together.

Pros: + Great benefits + Chill environment + Meaningful and impactful work + A lot of smart people

Cons: People work a lot, and that seeps into expectations for career growth. Operational overhead is increasing as they try and stabilize their product.