Pros: Salary and food. Good environment.

Cons: Time schedules can be tight.

Pros: - Opportunity to write software that gets used by hundreds of millions of people - Opportunity to see how a successful company is run - Opportunity to launch often - Potential IPO

Cons: - Frontend work (i.e., work done in most of the product-oriented teams) is mostly mundane PHP and nothing intellectually challenging from a Computer Science perspective. (Backend may be different, but I never tried that.) - Potential to get judged too quickly for performance. They are less willing than other companies to let you try something different, which may be a better fit if you are not performing well enough on your current project. - Chaos that may hurt you: you may start out on one project but be expected to do something else for no good reason, that may not be the best fit for your skills. - Some managers are too busy to give useful, frequent feedback. - I get the impression that they manage by a bell curve but are not being transparent about it.

Pros: 1. Very competitive salary, stock grant, and benefits in the Toronto Region. 2. Big tech on resume. 3. Solving world-level problems. No longer work in companies that just do CRUD or call other services. Build frameworks for others, solving big data/huge data problems. 4. Talented co-workers, the very best you can think of.

Cons: Layoffs really hurt the culture. Peer pressure and an impact-driven culture can be toxic, leading to a fast pace. Sometimes it can be a metric game.