Pros: Excellent benefits High levels of autonomy Two Fridays off a month On my team, at least: excellent workplace culture

Cons: Expectation of highly independent work means there's often little direction. You must be self-motivated. Somewhat lacking in process; can be disorganized.

Pros: Good benefits. Amazing WLB. Generally good job safety.

Cons: Generally, there is poor middle management. The technology is past its time in the sun, and it is very expensive to run at scale. If you are deploying Elastic or solutions in 2026, you are doing something really wrong. There is weak execution, meaning more talk and less doing. The company is unnecessarily woke. People are embarrassing the SLT, including the CEO, on calls, which will never not be hilarious.

Pros: Great work-life balance, no micromanagement.

Cons: Can be boring because of repetitive work.