Pros: Focus on employee wellness with various benefits and preventing burnout. Special trips, care packages, etc. Virtually no deadlines ever.

Cons: Metrics-based teams mean lots of cross-platform development.

Pros: The opportunity to actually contribute to a worthwhile mission of free language education for the work that all of your coworkers believe in 100%. Working with talented, motivated, and intelligent people. Code you write may be deployed and start benefiting millions within the same day. Duolingo provides the opportunity to have actual impact. An excellent culture of camaraderie, anti-bureaucracy, and fun! Catered daily lunches with all coworkers around the same table. Dinner if you want to stay late. Flexible hours, great benefits, awesome and frequent social events. The honor of working for a down-to-earth, genuine, and truly compassionate CEO.

Cons: Many of us are slight workaholics because we enjoy our jobs so much. It is sometimes difficult to balance a personal life outside of work.

Pros: Good flexibility and interesting work.

Cons: Working as a contractor is very inconsistent with little room for growth.