Pros: - The people team seems to be legitimately caring and trying to make a difference. - Remote culture - Good perks and decent salary for people outside NY

Cons: -The engineering reorg was done in an awful way. Now each pillar (or better-said silo) establishes their own practices for pretty much everything. This leads to a lot of inconsistencies and mistrust. Because pillars don't currently talk, good luck trying to collaborate with other teams. - The level of the new hires is much lower than what it used to be. Now that each pillar controls their own hiring process, the mismatch between new hires in each pillar is huge. - Waterfall development everywhere, with no regards to any sort of technical discipline or standards. People do "sprints" and are "agile", but in reality, everything is done using Gantt-charts. And, of course like any other waterfall project, everything changes the last minute and people scramble to pull some heroics to duct-tape whatever may work. - Hero culture where a few individuals try to overcome all the structural problems by sheer bravery. These acts are even celebrated during the recognition part of the AMAs. This aggravates the culture of self-promotion that is the only way one can grow in this company.

Pros: All building blocks to produce software effectively are there so you can focus on writing fun software while adding value to customers.

Cons: This is a remote work. Under normal circumstances (pre-pandemic) DO will fly you out to meet your team, but given the current situation, this is not possible.

Pros: The people, culture, environment; genuinely happy, transparent, and surprisingly laid-back. No BS or sugar-coating to be had, just people passionate about what we do and those we work with. Simple and extremely effective to boost productivity and eliminate any stress from work. There's a constant push to continue doing things better, accepting that perfection doesn't exist but we can do our best without putting pressure on people. I really appreciate that management understands they need to empower their employees in a sustainable manner.

Cons: Not much to share on cons. I've worked for a handful of software companies over a decade, working my way up in scale. There's always something to complain about. I've been waiting for the skeletons to fall out of the closet but after a few months here I have nothing to report. No company is perfect, and if there's nothing to improve on then good talent will leave in search of compelling challenges. I don't see that here. I see a lot of people who are happily engaged in their work at every IC level and a consistent push for improving things. There are things to improve for engineers but nothing swept under the rug. I don't see myself blocked for months/years waiting for other teams to implement features I need or want. There's a good amount of complexity to our engineering processes and efforts are underway to provide further clarity.