Pros: They take care of employees and are empathetic to needs.

Cons: A "hacker first" culture leads to a lot of bloat.

Pros: Interesting challenges, great care package

Cons: The usual pains of high growth rate.

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.