Pros: Really smart people to learn from.

Cons: You might feel inferior at times.

Pros: The company is really positioned well. The core flexible ontology concepts in Foundry and Gotham are incredible tools in an AI-driven world where a simple schema isn't enough. There are also lots of great and really motivated people here. Conflict is rare, and the company manages to maintain a feeling of constant urgency. You're always working on the most important thing.

Cons: You always have more work than you can complete, so you never get to feel done. Management is largely engineers that have been promoted up, but it ends up feeling like no one knows what they are doing at the management level. Management has a knack for not communicating, so you often get different stories and have trouble putting together the truth. For a long time, folks were strung along with promised raises that never came. Company policy changes almost on a dime. Everything is focused around constant change, and mature products are looked at as chores to get rid of; nothing gets to be finished.

Pros: Overall: - Good perks, especially house subsidy and free food (go out and buy whatever you want reasonably). - Smart and energetic colleagues. I worked for two different teams, and my experience was very different: Team 1: - Experienced lead with great technical knowledge, very good communication, and quick, actionable feedback. - Workload is reasonable. - Colleagues are very friendly and great to work with. - Probably one of the most pleasant teams to work with. Team 2: - The work is more interesting than Team 1's. - The product is used by several important organizations.

Cons: Overall: - "Flat hierarchy" is a joke; leads with absolute power are big dictators. You will never have a chance to talk to the lead of your lead, and there are 3 or 4 people on the top of the hierarchy if you are a software engineer. - Way understaffed. - Devs in the satellite office are very dependent on devs in the headquarters. Team 1: - The project is a bit tedious, not very distinctive from what many other startups are doing. Team 2: - Possibly the worst software management I have ever experienced. - Very inexperienced, political, terrible, close-minded, and hypocritical lead: doesn't understand the tasks technically, constantly sets unreasonable expectations, judges people at every detail inside and outside of work, thinks documentation is a waste of time, and takes constructive feedback very personally. I am not sure why he is in the tech industry; Wall St may suit him better. - There is little to no mentorship when you get into a new team. - Every word you speak can be used to go against you when needed. - Frequently burnt out due to unreasonable expectations (working up to 5 AM to meet the lead's expectation is a norm). - Many egoistic colleagues are close-minded, unwilling to help, and unwilling to debate for better ideas. - Literally no documentation; you will waste most of your time comprehending code that is done at 2 AM without any support. - The work itself is not hard; it is hard because you are going to work alone without any documentation. - Testing and release process is a joke. - Performance Improvement Plan is an absolute play. If your lead doesn't like you, even if you complete your PIP successfully, he will extend it until he can find a small fault (or maybe not even a fault) to force you out. If you are ever put under a PIP and feeling your lead doesn't like you, make sure to choose to quit for better benefits, as you will be fired at the end anyway. Advice to new hires: avoid the PG Infrastructure team unless you want to be burnt out and to waste your time learning bad-quality codes.