Pros: - Brilliant engineering managers who give timely feedback, mentor well and keep you in the loop - Amazing events organized by Workplace Experience Coordinators - Great higher level management - Engineers are given time and resources to address technical debt - No micro-management; what matters is the work you deliver - Very flexible work-hours; as long as you attend your meetings and get your work done, no questions are asked - Realistic expectations meaning amazing work-life balance and low stress; if you so choose it (there's always more work to be done) - Great testing approach (TDD) which means high velocity and confidence in product along with frequent deployments - Great compensation and benefits: RSUs with frequent vesting, ESPP, yearly bonus, good life/health insurance, pension plan with great employee matching on contributions - Generally all great engineers in the office (few bad apples who have no attention to detail or aren't good collaborators or sadly both) - Engineers own the technical side, if you want to change anything you can as long as you get your pull request reviewed

Cons: - There's a lot of legacy components and a lot of work to be done to be able to scale more efficiently and addressing technical debt - Office politics: if you're not liked by a clique of people at the top you're probably screwed, you'll have a toxic employment and have people talking behind your back, there's certainly a few people you want to avoid as much as possible

Pros: - Nice well-equipped office, - Good, capable people - Interesting work and sector - Diverse teams of different skill sets and competencies - Company is trying to be at the bleeding edge of tech in the security-as-a-service space - Regular communication from senior management down to employees, even if not always in detail. - Regular events for employees both during and outside of work hours - Tries to be a fun place to work

Cons: - Intense workslate - Interdepartmental communication - Low Morale following layoffs - Mandatory 3 day office week with little flexibility - Tries too hard to be a fun place to work - Some degree of internal politics - The company likes to give off an image of being an equal opportunities employer but the reality is different. I was very open with my manager about my learning disability which affects my ability to communicate and process new information, as well as a minor physical disability which occasionally affected the rate I was able to work (dyspraxia causing random pain when typing). I was assured this would be taken aboard and asked what could be done to help ease these concerns. I gave suggestions. Few, if any, of these suggestions were actioned. Some months later, I was let go for "underperformance" and vaguely cited "issues with communication and ramping up". The company failed to make adjustments for my needs and labeled it as my fault.

Pros: * Corey and his team are doing a great job. This can be viewed from financial results and how they try to expand the product portfolio. They improved employee benefits, showing that they care about their people. * There are some good engineers and good people that you can especially have a "real conversation" with and learn from. But only a couple... * Site reliability engineering team is brilliant. They have a good team cohesion.

Cons: * There is a frat culture in the Dublin office. Bros taking care of each other and deciding people’s fates behind closed doors. There is too much gossip going on. You have to prove yourself to certain people, not through your work, but... I do not know what their criteria are. If you are not liked – for some reason – then there goes the workplace bullying. * Management in the office seems to be powerless about it. Or maybe indifferent; accepted the situation; even supportive in cases. Promotions suggest this. * HQ is trying to implement its own cultural values, which are excellent, but there is a condescending attitude towards them within the Dublin office, as “too American” or “too corporate”; part of the frat outlook. * There is no feeling of purpose or goal, so that people can rally around it. What is the competition? What do customers want? These are not part of the daily conversation. * HR is in Belfast and they have no clue about what is going on. I am not sure if they are able to solve issues there. * There is too much politics going on in a small workplace. * Too much technical debt. There is the feeling of flogging a dead horse, constantly.