Pros: High level of competence of colleagues You're never the most experienced or highest skilled person in your team Constantly learning and career growing Freedom to explore new technologies Very data-oriented Very technically oriented managers Clojure shop Well-tested, well-crafted, always improving code solutions

Cons: Executive level decisions sometimes are big-bang and not gradual. Promotion strategy isn't based on performance, but on the existence of an open role.

Pros: Amazing people at hand in Slack. You can reach the folks that wrote Clojure, Datomic, and the ones that created Nubank from the start to ask questions and learn from them.

Cons: Really hard to get promoted, its probably easier to quit, return a year later and apply to the next level and get hired. Sometimes the priority is to show off your work than doing it, so a document that explains how to do something better (even if it's wrong) might be better for your career than make the thing better without much documentation. For promotions, you're overly dependent on how your manager sells you, there's no way you can overcome a bad manager aside from changing teams. The issue is that most tech managers are mid. Usually the ones that were engineers and did the work (and they were good engineers) and became managers because they didn't like their managers are the good ones.

Pros: Flexible work hours A lot of smart people

Cons: Bad communication Bad Tech leaders Not competitive payment