Pros: The food is pretty good.

Cons: - Waterfall project management. - Old and difficult tech stack. - The codebase is a big mudball, and it takes forever to fix even the simplest bugs. - Over 40 hours/week. - Unreasonable expectations. - No teamwork; you're on your own. - No trust. - Software developers aren't really developers, since they spend more time managing projects and collecting business requirements than working in code.

Pros: - Great pay - Fantastic health insurance - Incredible culinary team - Feels very stable - Individual offices

Cons: Individual offices can make you feel very isolated and make it hard to bond with your team, most especially during COVID times. The company as a whole is very stuck in the past, both in terms of culture and software. The codebase is enormous and very messy; lots of bad code patched with more bad code piled on top. Internal documentation is scarce and rarely updated. The training is incredibly extensive (2-3 months to complete), but you don't learn almost anything that you'll use in your day-to-day work. The company has a severe case of "Not-invented-here syndrome." For instance, rather than just using React for their newer stuff, they tried to create their own version of React, which just ended up being much clunkier and less useful. Finally, in the last year, they've relented and decided to just use React after all.

Pros: Good pay, good health insurance, and I got a lot of creative freedom over my projects. Most of the people there are very kind and smart. Working here will help you grow your professional skills quickly.

Cons: Management is very metric-driven, so you will get grilled if they think you are spending too long on a project, even when that is largely out of your control. The work-life balance is not great (but for software devs, not too bad) – they will constantly push you to work more hours. It's easy to get burned out, as many others have mentioned. Upper management seemed quite out of touch.