Pros: Madison was an amazing place to live. Great salary. Beautiful campus.

Cons: The tech stack is extremely outdated (they're finally transitioning to web, but I only worked with Visual Basic and Mumps). My work consisted of fixing bugs in old code. The one project I was given was never even started because we could never get a design approved. They try to sell you on how amazing the campus is. It's beautiful, but there's nothing beyond that. Everybody drinks the Kool-Aid. No working from home. They advertise flexible hours, but you're required to be in the office by 9. All in all, they compare themselves to Google and Facebook, but the perks don't even come close to comparing.

Pros: The team I’m on is great, and everyone works well together.

Cons: Having no remote work flexibility isn’t ideal, but it’s core to the company.

Pros: The campus keeps things interesting. The food is good, and the benefits are good (including free stock that the company buys back from you when you leave). The company culture surrounding feedback creates a fairly safe space to give constructive criticism, and personally, I liked the people I worked with.

Cons: Managers are encouraged to be hypercritical and employees are pushed to work 50+ hour weeks. It’s challenging to maintain work-life balance. There’s little to no flexibility around work from home (you get 5 days per year for now plus extreme weather days). Diversity is not great (software developers were overwhelmingly male; teams I saw had less than 1 female developer for every 20 male ones).