Pros: Remote working with a global team. Niche skills.

Cons: Nothing for now. All seems good.

Pros: - Looks like the business is good, so things are moving towards an IPO. - Company has quite a few "wellness days" over the year, i.e., extra holidays (likely to somewhat compensate for the items listed in the Cons section). - The CEO seems to maintain a culture of internal transparency, so you get informed about the company's successes or shortcomings.

Cons: Engineering is a total mess: * Forget about work-life balance, as you will be pinged over Slack around the clock. People are expecting you to take meetings at like 9 pm to accommodate other time zones. * Leadership cares about nothing but how Jira tickets flow. It is more important to make sure your tickets look good than to actually do work. * Priorities are changing every 5 minutes. * Unless you take time out of your nights and weekends, it is impossible to get anything done due to distractions and changing priorities. * Insane inefficiencies are seriously affecting the entire engineering team, coming from homegrown deployment tools that are outdated and way under-documented. The collective wasted time on these is incredible, yet the leadership does not prioritize replacing them.

Pros: Good work-life balance; starting to place more emphasis on quality instead of shipping speed. Fun teammates - everyone pretty seasoned, smart, no politics that I've seen, just transparency & good collaboration. Trying to build things the right way is important in the culture. Sanjay is a great CEO - makes good decisions, values quality, treats employees with respect, 0 politics, transparent about very important & consequential decisions. Feels good to have someone like that driving the car.

Cons: Sometimes there's still a bit of startup "disorganization." Some teams are figuring things out for the first or second time, and some processes are still maturing at Netskope but have already been figured out at bigger companies. Some parts of the stack still have a bit of debt. Some internal middleware for Netskope is a bit hard to learn and non-industry-standard, which is taking a while to transition away from. Most new teams have the freedom to maneuver around this stuff, though, which is nice. So it's getting deprecated, but it's slow because of how central it is.