Pros: Amazing benefits (good healthcare, stipends for gym memberships and athletic gear, many free therapy visits, etc.) Very high pay.

Cons: Hands-off onboarding Disorganized management Poorly defined team scopes

Pros: Free breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Pay is pretty good. Well, you don’t die like in Squid Game; you’re just laid off.

Cons: Everything else Condense sucks. Unreadable code, written by those who don’t want to give their job away, so intentionally confusing. Managers who were at the right place at the right time. Mine literally got LUCKY with right timing and very limited experience. Directors even dumber — applied once every year for the past 20 years and finally made it into Meta. So they hold onto the role like there’s no tomorrow. Colleagues, Squid Game-style competition. Work is meaningless — like a piece of crap wrapped in sweet chocolate, so you only see the chocolate at first. Stress cultures — if you’re not stressed, you will be second-hand stressed, oh yeah! Everything is done with stress — it’s like replacing the coffee in the morning because coffee is free. None of the projects here make any technical sense. 2+2=5 because John said so.

Pros: The problem space is very interesting. Commitments from leadership are strong. Lots of solvable problems.

Cons: Lots of managers and directors who don’t know what to do and insist on steering. Lots of teams who have no path to success and end up randomized, everyone cause they have leadership backing. Poor quality managers who make bad decisions and then hide them.