Pros: Good company, office perks, good opportunities.

Cons: workaholic culture; can get really unlucky if placed on a bad team.

Pros: I get to work with smart, conscientious people. The compensation is very good, and I think the core product is quite good (there's a reason people pay for it). I enjoy most days at work, despite my complaints below.

Cons: Virtually every developer at Datadog shudders when they hear the word "Bazel". Our approach to developer experience is so, so, broken. There's an expectation that people should build new products in (one of the several) large monorepos, but actually getting things done in those repos is brutally slow. Just launching or testing your backend service involves waiting ages for Bazel to compile a ton of unrelated code. On top of that, we have to use a lot of bad, underdocumented, proprietary developer tooling. If you want to spin up a new REST service/Postgres instance/whatever, expect everything to take 5-10x more effort and time than it would elsewhere. You will spend more of your time learning how to do things the some-internal-team way than actually solving business problems. Edit-compile-run loops are often an order of magnitude slower than they would be at other companies. This mess is sometimes kind of *interesting*, but it is definitely not a good way to spend software developers' time.

Pros: - A solid company that is pushing the frontier on observability and AI - Well-scoped work, focusing on well-being and avoiding burnout - Plenty of room for learning, growing, and experimenting

Cons: - Priorities might shift suddenly or at the last minute at the beginning of the quarter - Internal reorgs happen from time to time, but there are no layoffs