Pros: The food is okay; they ended the bakery recently.

Cons: There is no direction or vision. A lot of leadership at the lower levels don't really know how to translate strategy into executable initiatives. Workflows are completely siloed, and re-organizations lead to several re-hashes of the same project. Several layers of management are arbitrarily introduced to squash accountability to the individual contributor level. There's a cultural gap within teams, pronounced when members speak on professional matters in different languages. People are praised and promoted for delivering band-aid solutions which don't address some core issues within the tech stack, and others are assigned to maintain it. Constant turnover for some of the strategic leadership positions.

Pros: - I have never had trouble maintaining my work/life balance. - I have been encouraged to take my time learning things well, even when it wouldn't immediately benefit my team. - Has a respectable engineering review process for building new systems, so they are seldom totally harebrained (though they've overhauled this process a couple of times, so this might be out of date).

Cons: - Frequent re-orgs make it hard to know who's in charge of what. - Leans heavily towards building its own systems rather than purchasing them or using OSS. - High-level "company goals"-type communications tend to sound completely meaningless to me.

Pros: Great benefits: unlimited PTO, insurance, a perks allowance of $1750 per quarter to spend on basically anything, 8 free therapy sessions per year, and 6 months of parental leave for parents with newborns. Fully remote, and they let you set your own schedule outside of core collaboration hours. Amazing work-life balance. Work is interesting and challenging. Top pay for all roles. Management and team members are great to work with. Optional offsite events to meet your team every quarter. Very clear structure for promotions. Diverse group of coworkers.

Cons: They usually pay new hires more than people who get promoted internally for the same level, which is not unusual in the industry.