Pros: - Games room and social events. - The team knows how to use Agile and has a focus on good project management. - Meal perks: free Friday lunch and a weekly Grubhub bonus. - The people in my team are very open and approachable. - We schedule time to refactor the codebase. - We schedule a proper amount of time for automation testing and release management. - You will get proper work/life balance (rare in NYC).

Cons: - Working in midtown can be stressful with the amount of people you need to dodge. - We're currently expanding the office, so finding good desk space is difficult. - The codebase is challenging in parts.

Pros: Good work-life balance, fast growth.

Cons: Base salary is lower than big tech companies.

Pros: Smart colleagues Half-day Fridays Reasonable compensation

Cons: Poor, biased, and aggressive management which uses withholding information and lack of transparency as opposed to empowering engineers. Management makes poor decisions that can't be backed up and gets defensive when you ask for more information. Aggressive management is promoted rather than discouraged. Lack of strategy which is based on the highest-paid person's opinion rather than an organized, collaborative, data-driven process. As a result, these decisions without explanations seem biased. Engineers need to participate in hours of business review meetings that are a forum for whomever is most aggressive. Company decisions are similar: requiring everyone to go into the office with no more communication than, "we miss seeing your faces." DEI efforts are as minimal as required, and also not transparent. Reports which took years to see will state only positives, like the whole company is diverse, but not that the engineering department has gotten considerably less diverse and with more turnover. The HR/People team doesn't aim to be partners for employees and is not transparent on its initiatives, goals, or process.