Pros: Smart people. Interesting work. Good food. Decent compensation for location.

Cons: Culture of burning out new grads Expect work to take over your life

Pros: Amazing compensation coming out of college. Learn a lot about working with teams.

Cons: Some of the development is strange/very different. Resources are sometimes limited when trying to learn. It can get pretty stressful. Generally, work weeks are 45 hours, though some teams demand a bit more. There are no ladders to climb.

Pros: Good food. You can probably get your own office space. I guess campus is big/"fancy" (but like, really, who cares how much budget they sink into it? Walking around takes a lot of time.)

Cons: Very stringent against WfH, at least pre-COVID. The expectation is to work you like a mule though, regardless of the difficulty of assignments or the config issues/old stack you're grappling with. You really have to be very into what you're doing (and probably dedicating your life to it, as if) to last, as they'll systematically push you out around the 1-2 year mark. Basically, it's great for old-timers who've been there basically forever and know the codebase like the back of their hands. As for new folks: do your time, then get out and find somewhere you'd like (most of you).