Pros: - A lot of great people to work with from all over the world, having a wide range of talents. - The compensation is quite good, especially taking into account the stock appreciation.

Cons: - Constant change of priorities; planning is a joke. - As an engineer, you're lucky if you can work on engineering problems 20% of your time. The rest will be paperwork and useless meetings. - In-house tools are garbage and constantly break, slowing you down. - Ultimately, you are not doing your work to improve things; you are earning "self-review points". - Management is incompetent and often making your life worse on purpose. - Extremely political. Simply doing your job well is a guaranteed way out of the company in many orgs.

Pros: Money amenities very rarely work more than 40 hours.

Cons: Work can sometimes be hard and cutthroat. You have to figure it out alone.

Pros: Kind engineer and good guide to solve problems.

Cons: Too short a time to think and solve the problem.