Pros: Very interesting job, amazing people, and amazing bosses. Salary is good and so do the stock benefits.

Cons: The company is more strict in comparison to other high tech companies and is a little cheap in office goodies, as I had to beg for a new monitor and no alcohol is allowed at the office.

Pros: There are mountains and oceans of data and challenges, along with lots of very smart people.

Cons: Your experience depends ***very much*** on which group you'll be and under what team leader. While there *are* excellent group heads and good and decent team leaders who are also a genuine pleasure to work with, they are not the norm nor the median. More often than not, you'll face a very competitive and at times hostile environment. In addition, there is a ***huge*** mess in code management and versioning. The same goes for the database, which can be changed during the night without any prior notice. All your code will fail, and you'll spend the day finding out who moved your training data and to where. Many times, entry-level engineers will be left to their own devices with little oversight and later fired for "lack of results" (not my case) - just because there are "a ton" of possible replacements outside the door. Abrupt decisions and multiple project switching are abundant, and basically there is no atmosphere of collaboration between teams and groups. Basically, the company leans more towards inner competitiveness and secretiveness rather than collaboration and knowledge sharing.

Pros: The people were nice and the job was nice.

Cons: It was hard to work in Jerusalem.