Pros: The onsite cafeteria is nice. It provides free lunch and breakfast daily.

Cons: Promotion is slow. It takes 7 years to get promoted to a senior level, whereas industry leaders in the technology sector take 4-5 years. Old technology. Slow adoption of public cloud technologies. There is no target bonus here. Raises are sub-inflation level here in Natick. The average is around 2-3% this year, according to anonymous surveys and my manager's information. However, folks in India received around 10%+ raises (good for them). The company treats PhD graduates as people with 5+ years of experience. This doesn't reflect reality, as anyone with 5+ years of full-time work experience beats PhDs, hands down. There are too many individuals from adjacent organizations who only show relevance by nitpicking developers' work, yet they don't contribute to product development (think software process engineering, for instance, which is a misnomer since folks there don't develop software, yet they come with new rules for developers that only look good on paper, i.e., the process about solving main branch blockers in 2 hours). For those who don't understand, this is an organization that nitpicks developers on how forms on Confluence and Jira tickets are filled, when they can only be filled manually. It is super sad how this is even a performance metric.

Pros: Work-life balance. Vacation. Hybrid work.

Cons: Salary is way less compared to the market. Things move way too slowly. Management is top-down. Technologies used are obsolete and outdated.

Pros: Chill work culture. Not a company that runs blindly behind profits.

Cons: Pay can be low compared to Boston, but hey, they're in Natick.