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: There are a lot of hard problems that we try to solve. But that is becoming less the case over time.

Cons: - Toxic company. New hires do most of the heavy lifting. - This is a consulting company. You are not working for a software company. - No product roadmap. No product strategy. - Extremely political. If you fight the big guys, you are out. - The loudest voice wins. Always. (contrary to Palantir claims). - Average age: 25, with a standard deviation of 2 years. 90+% of employees are under 32. In short, kids are leading the boat. - Cost cutting is happening now that the company is trying to IPO. No housing subsidy, less interesting pay, worse software quality, and highly questionable cost-cutting techniques/strategies. Corp cards for everyone (extravaganza), but cost cuts to product development. - People compete to see "who will stay longest in the office" as a cool thing. That’s because most employees, while extremely talented, have little to no social life outside of work. If you do, you’re losing that game. - Arrogance. Plenty of it. Masked in fake modesty.

Pros: Good pay and benefits. Large established team with smart peers. Very mature tech stack.

Cons: Large amounts of internal systems can sometimes be hard to navigate. Product direction is driven by large customers.