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: WLB: No one works. Good 401(k) match. Free gym. Yearly company events.

Cons: - If you ask questions, you will be abused by your manager & leadership. - Unqualified people are made managers. - There is no overall quality of code or management. And when things go wrong, you will be thrown under the bus. - HR won't support. They are literally dead zombies.

Pros: I've been interning here for more than 3 months. From what I observed: * Relaxing work culture but challenging problems to solve. * People help each other, and there are a lot of smart, knowledgeable employees. * The company takes care of employees and doesn't encourage them to take work home. In fact, it tells employees to work no more than 40 hours per week or talk to the manager about having to overwork. * Growing steadily (but not as fast as some hot startups); it's building a second campus now. Side note: The CEO drives a generic electric car and is one of the most humble persons I've seen. This fits a minimalist or frugal person's profile.

Cons: Commute can be tough. There are very few public transport options in and out of Natick, which is already becoming crowded and expensive to buy property. The pay is probably below average compared to other hot Silicon Valley companies. They need to figure out how to bring recycling bins back. They used to have them, but for some reason, we no longer have recycling bins in the offices.