Pros: - Great work life balance - The best company culture out there. The company strives to maintain this even as we grow rapidly and constantly improve based on feedback - More than 90% of co-workers are kind, supportive and smart. - Managers care about your interests and growth. They are encouraged to do so from upper management - The work is great with a lot of learning opportunities.

Cons: Compensation might be a little less than what you can get from some other companies, especially in some expensive COL areas. But it's not too low either. You basically trade some money for all the pros mentioned above.

Pros: Most PD employees are super nice and in general the company has tons of emotional intelligence. Lots of support for underrepresented groups, especially through employee resource groups. Good diversity stats compared to the industry and region (board and execs included). Managers go on-call too, not just line level workers. Work/life balance was quite reasonable, although it depends significantly on the team. Ask lots of questions about the on-call load for the specific team you're considering joining.

Cons: There is a strong tendency to cargo cult technical decisions and appeal to authority in discussions, which was probably exacerbated by... There is a cultural fear of being wrong, caused by a small group in engineering who treat every interaction as a battle to be won. It wasn't uncommon for people to express fear of asking questions in certain channels out of fear of one of these people (or their emulators) making them feel stupid. The engineering department probably wastes half its budget redoing work to use increasingly niche technologies as top engineers' interests meander. Most valuable stuff is owned by a team and a rotation, so if you're not a manager or lead, opportunities for individual ownership can be limited, which can make career growth challenging beyond the early career.

Pros: There are free t-shirts and lunches, and the location is central.

Cons: There is a bizarre cult of personality surrounding the CEO. A couple of my coworkers openly talked about having a mommy thing for her, which is apparently pretty common. It is a very strange place.