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• Flexible hours
• Good vacation policy
• Decent benefits
• Close to train station and downtown
• Friendly co-workers
• Free catered lunches, as well as scheduled food trucks

• Healthcare did not cover transgender surgery.
• Stressed-out management.
• Heavily siloed teams.
• Tendency for known problems in the codebase to go unaddressed in favor of features.

You treat your employees well, but you treat your low- and mid-level managers poorly. Every manager I had while I was there was barely available, constantly in meetings, and seemed to be under enormous pressure.

This, I think, resulted in poor coordination between and within teams, since a lot of the work of project management kept falling on technical leads who didn't have the authority, training, or higher-level understanding to make up for it.