Pros: Good culture, work-life balance.

Cons: Lower pay than industry standards

Pros: - Some of the best culture and WLB I have experienced. - They really care about mental health, at least my org/team did.

Cons: - The tech stack might be a bit outdated depending on the org/work you do.

Pros: Opportunity to work on an array of products, both on-premise and cloud. The technology stack used for development varies according to team. I have personally worked on: * Networking optimization for Sql Server on Linux with a lot of low-level C/C++ codebase. * Telemetry in Postgres and MySql cloud services using C#. * Multi-AZ support for Azure Databases (C#). There are very few places where you find this kind of breadth. There are engineering teams working on cloud-scale deployments, database query optimization, and security, to name a few.

Cons: Very hierarchical, huge teams, and hard to create impact.