Pros: Mountains of data to explore and process. Solid infrastructure and tools. A product that people love and a company that nurtures it. Organized onboarding processes get you up to speed quickly. Full of refugees from Google, Facebook, and other top tech companies. You learn from the best tech has to offer. Lots of new graduate hires to give you a fresh perspective and keep you grounded. Weekly Q&A with Ben isn't some canned event where questions are pre-selected and vetted to avoid uncomfortable questions. It's a town hall meeting where citizens can speak directly to the mayor. Authenticity is valued here. Meaningful equity.

Cons: The chairs kind of suck. Can be overwhelming when you first join.

Pros: Whenever I hear Ben speak, I am amazed at his ability to inspire me and have a great sense of satisfaction working at the company.

Cons: Growing pains. But I am learning a lot and count my blessings every day that I get to learn so much from so many smart people, get paid doing it, get great food and perks. And when there are bumpy times, I always remember 'a smooth sea never made a skilled sailor'.

Pros: Good mentors and opportunity to make impact, even during a short internship. I wrote code that is still in use 2 years later! Awesome internship program with all the swag/perks/events you expect out of Silicon Valley. HUGE monetization opportunity with large user growth prospects, too. Challenging work of scaling a product to hundreds of millions of users, thousands and thousands of advertisers, and billions of unique ideas.

Cons: Tech debt and occasional management shuffles slow down the engineering team. The new head of engineering looks like she'll fix these issues. Pre-IPO startup means you trade cash for stock (less liquid) in terms of your compensation.