Pros: Good culture, CEO, and products.

Cons: No career pathway. Can't switch teams without telling the current manager, which is bad and discouraging.

Pros: - Name and prestige, perhaps.

Cons: I am not sure where all these positive reviews about the healthy work-life balance come from, but it was one of the worst places and onboarding experiences I've had in the industry. It's actually quite embarrassing for a company that has been around for a really long time, with an astronomically high market cap, and in the middle of Silicon Valley, to have a really bad engineering culture. There seems to be no value for the whole organization in building a good engineering ecosystem, especially on the software side. There are a lot of upper managers who have been around for a while and are pretty conservative in work culture, imposing servitude on engineers instead of growing them. As for work-life balance, more than half of my team members have been working past 7 PM every day, and the directory keeps spamming the chat almost every day at 11 PM at night. The stand-up process is a mess where there are too many people in the meeting, and no one has any idea about the scope of projects. The PM is clueless and seemed to be assigned the role to chase artificially imposed deadlines. On the compensation side, there is a one-year cliff. So, if you are coming from a lot of FAANG companies, it's pretty much a year of a half-salary pay cut.

Pros: From an engineering perspective, it is an incredibly dedicated group of people trying to make the best product they can with the requirements laid out for the product. It's a bit slow at times from getting things done in ops and internal tooling, but I've worked with a more knowledgeable group of folk. The only reason I even left is because there wasn't an internal transfer for a position I was looking for, and I do regret not looking harder.

Cons: Marketing makes a lot of very questionable decisions that affect the reputation of the engineers. You really can't tell if some of the decisions being made are out of malice or incompetence, and the enterprise sector is so profitable that they'll never see any consequences. There's a lot of tribal knowledge. Colossus is a colossal disaster. The Internal Tools team is doing their best, it's just not up to the standards of the rest of the company, meaning internal Ops is kind of a mess. They could do with a bit more diversity.