Pros: A not stressful workload, mostly helpful coworkers, and free snacks and lunch most days of the week.

Cons: Obvious favorites will succeed, a standard tech sexist and racist culture although constantly preaching inclusivity, tight budgets on teams, a slightly outdated tech stack, and lower pay compared to most tech companies.

Pros: Redfin has an awesome mission, and is looking to modernize a backward and disliked industry. It has your standard tech perks and atmosphere plus some. Like people who are friendly and helpful, you're surrounded by snacks and beer, a beautiful office overlooking Puget Sound, catered lunch or a walk to Pike Place Market, good pay, hackathons, etc. Engineering is empowered, although I won't say it's perfect, and provides career goals and growth. Such as the ability to focus on the technology you're most interested in, with frequent 1-1s to course correct. There is lots of transparency, access to internal documents about revenue, growth, and the company's long-term financial plans, etc. Going back to the mission, it's very interesting to get out of general pure tech and have a brick and mortar side, which is a brokerage! Oh, and Glenn, who is the CEO, is an awesome guy. There are many great and hilarious stories surrounding him!

Cons: Moving to a new office next year to accommodate growth, which probably won't be as awesome. Often run out of gold peak tea. Growing pains, although these are natural.

Pros: Great work life balance, at least in the SF office. Managers really take care of you and have your career growth in mind. This means even though your compensation is a bit lower compared to other tech firms, the amount of hours you work might make it proportionally better compensation.

Cons: I have no confidence in our product chief, who basically chose to lay off the entire user research team in the name of going back to our start-up roots, and we have no idea what the market wants in our product.