Meta

• Fast-paced environment.
• Easy to have a huge impact given our user base, analytics, and small number of engineers.
• Good compensation, especially with equity.
• Very merit-based: if you're not pulling your weight, you'll be asked to leave. This means you only work with the best and brightest.
• Lots of independence. People won't just be handing you specs and telling you to implement them.

• Very merit-based. If you're not pulling your weight, you'll be asked to leave. This is not actually a con at all if you're good.
• With independence comes responsibility. If your stuff breaks, you fix it. But this leads to a culture of building awesome things, which is not really a con.

Keep pushing the envelope.

But do keep in mind the effects of external forces (both positive and negative) on employees and their ability to do groundbreaking things in the future.