Pros: A startup-like culture in a mid-sized company. Highly skilled engineers from whom you can learn. Amazing, developed infrastructure (automated integration testing, fully automated release process, good monitoring tools). High speed of developing code and pushing code to production. Fairly good transparency to see how your code is affecting the business.

Cons: - Decreased compensation post-IPO (compared to pre-IPO compensation). - Leads lacking management skills (although this is improving). - Slowly trending towards increased corporate bureaucracy as the company is growing, rather than maintaining the startup-like culture. - On some teams, on-call is hard because of a lack of resourcing.

Pros: Salary, environment, benefits, and a lot of others.

Cons: Work-life balance, stress and...

Pros: Talent and tools - There are really smart, experienced people here to learn and grow as a tech from. We have a mix of open-source software in use, which are of course transferable, and some internal tools. Any SRE can contribute to the tools and write as much, or as little code as you're comfortable with. There is a lot of opportunity to travel to different places; some SREs are rarely in the office, and some never go anywhere else. Also, the provided breakfast, lunch, dinner, and fully stocked kitchens are a bonus, as are the onsite physiotherapy and massages. There is no micromanagement. I am left to my own work, with no constant "check-ups" from a manager to "make sure I am working," but the support is still there if needed. A lot of the "work/life" issues in other reviews tend to be from Software Engineers and not an issue with SREs (I had the same concern when starting). - The docs are surprisingly good as well.

Cons: If you like normal work "structure," i.e., a manager giving you tasks to do and having regular "catch-ups" to ensure you are actually working, then Palantir could be a struggle for you. Personally, I can manage my own time and work, so this is a pro for me.