Pros: - We have an amazing, friendly team with an incredibly mature eng culture that balances pragmatism and thoughtful design. I am constantly impressed by the caliber of my coworkers and the quality of the output. - Because we are an infrastructure company, engineers have the opportunity to drive the product forward and help determine the product priorities, which is a unique opportunity. - High level of ownership across the different functions. Employees really care about the product. - Meaningful technical & business problems that can only be solved by collaboration between teams. - Management is receptive to feedback. - Reasonable work hours (flex) & vacation that people actually take!

Cons: - The regular share of fires and unplanned work, but this is pretty normal for a startup of our size. The team is getting better at being proactive about potential issues. - The feedback cycle for employees is in the early stages and needs to be formalized and regularized. - Office is a little cramped right now, but we are moving to an amazing new facility in September.

Pros: A friendly, hard-working, and passionate team working on interesting problems, with a team commitment to improving the state of financial services.

Cons: Standard engineering pains and frustrations at a rapidly growing company. Significant individual responsibility and time commitment.

Pros: - Plaid cares a ton about employee happiness and company culture - Competitive comp - Extremely mission and principles driven company - Has a solid core product offering, but is still pushing out into new territory with new products and ideas all the time - 3x yearly company hackathon is amazing - Genuinely the smartest yet most humble engineering team that I have ever worked on.

Cons: - Company has doubled in size in the last year, so there has been almost constant re-orging and mitosis of teams and groups, which is a little chaotic. - Doesn't invest enough into open sourcing great things that we have built internally. - Some systems have very high bus factors, and basically we always desperately need more engineers on everything :P