Pros: - The work/life balance here has been fantastic. - Generous with enrichment opportunities. - Genuinely concerned and active in regards to diversity.

Cons: - Sometimes scattered technical goals - Should spend more time addressing technical debt (though really most tech companies need to do this)

Pros: Culture is great, especially with regard to support from managers and collaboration. People are there to help each other. No workplace is perfect, but it is overall a healthy culture with a lot of value placed in work-life balance. There are a lot of big challenges, both technical and otherwise, and some big impacts to be made. Even relatively junior contributors can make a significant difference to the product if they seek the opportunities. Both consumer and enterprise products offer a lot of different challenges to work on.

Cons: Big organizations can move slowly sometimes, and OpenTable is no exception, although this has been getting better with fluid teams. Better coordination between product, design, and engineering is needed in some areas.

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.