Pros: Good teammates, nice people to work with. Good mission.

Cons: Everything else is in cons! Management and leadership is the worst you can ever experience.

Pros: So many amazing creators are able to do what they do because of Patreon.

Cons: The way leadership treats its employees as expendable is disgusting and a threat to the health of the business. They've raised a ton of money but have been having an incredibly hard time hiring engineering, partly because morale was low after sudden layoffs a year ago. (Have a happy pandemic!) With the product in desperate need of improvement and morale down, the company stopped everything for months and put all their hopes in one guy, Julian Gutman from Instagram, who was going to magically fix everything. Well, this guy spends a month, and his first big move is to fire a third of the product and engineering organization. Huh? Many long-term employees with years of irreplaceable knowledge were just told they're useless and to leave. Many brand-new employees, that the company worked hard for months to hire and who upended their lives to start a new job, were just kicked to the curb. It feels like insane incompetence.

Pros: I'm based in Dublin. The office opened in February 2020 and there are currently only 20 of us, so it's small but fun. We'll be doubling in size in 2021, so it's a cool time to join and be part of the growth of a tech unicorn. Most of the engineering team is based in SF, but we are building the international payments product in Dublin, so the work is interesting. There's lots of transparency and face-time with the leadership of the company. You get to hear all about how Patreon is performing, any issues, and how we are tackling them. There are still less than 300 employees globally, so it's not very hierarchical; you can Slack anyone in the company. Benefits are good and getting better. The craic is great.

Cons: Most of the Dublin office started remotely, so it has been a bit hard to get to know people. However, our managers do a good job of keeping everyone connected. We have flexible working as a company, so I don't think everyone will ever be back in the office. You'd need to enjoy that aspect of work. Also, it is a start-up atmosphere, which means lots of opportunities to do interesting work, but also a certain amount of chaos as stuff gets figured out.