Pros: Good engineers, an engineering process, no dress code, and fun parties.

Cons: Pay is not so good, raises are small, and there is no 401k matching.

Pros: As someone who can often treat myself badly in service of working more, I have found unexpected allies everywhere at OpenTable. Multiple co-workers (and definitely my manager) have encouraged me/us to take sick days when in doubt, including mental health days when the news hits hard. This makes me feel valued beyond what I can contribute to the bottom line, which is unfortunately mostly a new experience for me after 7 years in this industry. I have enjoyed working with almost everyone I have come across. People are kind, eager to help, fun, energetic, and caring.

Cons: There is definitely a cost to being a relatively old company — lots of structures, silos, and approval processes that have me thinking "there has to be a better way" on a weekly basis. At the same time, I have seen signs of awareness of the silos problem, and some willingness to address it. I am still new here, so the jury is still out, but I have hope.

Pros: Tons of hard, interesting engineering problems here, and they are working on Mesos infra (on AWS) and a Spark cluster. The web teams use node.js. Most of the backend stuff is in Java and Scala - Play framework, node, and Clojure. They have some legacy code in C#; they are moving away from it, and no one is really "porting" the code. Teams are building new products which are replacing old products over time.

Cons: None for now, and enjoy working here. Scale is not as massive compared to other consumer web companies in social media or web in terms of user data or activity. But it is still fun to work here.