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

Pros: Nice office, nice food, and good benefits.

Cons: Boring projects and work, valuation that is too high, and not going public any time soon.

Pros: Leadership cares about culture and employees' career growth and happiness. Customers and the fintech industry deeply need the product, so business fundamentals and growth are consistently strong.

Cons: Good luck explaining what Plaid does to your family. Starting to feel less like a startup these days.