Pros: Good start for a career. The work is interesting, based on the team.

Cons: Average pay. Might not have the recent stack. Multi-layer hierarchy.

Pros: It was a really good work environment with the latest tech stack.

Cons: The pair programming work environment, I felt, is not the best option.

Pros: - Remote work (but management is currently aggressively making everyone return to office if you live within 50 miles) - Relaxed workload. You can finish tasks at your own pace. Don't need to use vacation time if you need to take care of something around the house (e.g., a repairman comes to fix something in your house).

Cons: Management aggressively enforces pair programming and mobbing. You are not allowed to work alone, even for simple tasks. This is very tiring because you feel like you are in a whole-day meeting every day. You are also forced to do this "driver-navigator" thing, where the navigator explains what code to write and the driver types it out. Why not just have the navigator write the code instead of telling someone, "Put a } here. Make a new line. Go to line 37. Click the button on the top right. No, the other button. Press Ctrl+P. What? We don't use the same keybindings?" Lastly, there was one incident where my manager deleted my pull request and the associated branch merely because I did not do test-driven development. He did not even read my code.