Pros: Base compensation is good, but most of the other variable compensation doesn't get paid out. They'll find reasons to pull your ratings down so that you don't get the variable comp.

Cons: - Toxic work culture. Managers ask people to be in the office at odd hours. They are not empathetic enough. They want reportees to be in the office based on the time they come to the office. - Every miss or negative comment is documented, while appreciation is rare. - Show-off culture. If you show that you're working without actually delivering things, then you get promoted. High performers often quit because they are not into office politics. - Colleagues try to pull you down so that they can climb up the ladder. - No one wants to build relations here. Communications are very transactional and mostly negative. - No planning or sense of direction. It's such a simple product, but there are so many bugs in it because there's no engineering lead that sticks around to see things end to end. - Slack is mostly filled with negative messages.

Pros: Nice PTO Competent coworkers Decent free food

Cons: Intense, stressful, easy to get fired. Focus on speed, not quality, but you still have to manage quality. Not much engineering learning since most infra stuff is abstracted away. Mostly biz logic if on a product team.

Pros: A very transparent environment, leadership is very open about financials, etc. A strong engineering team and product culture, which is engineering-driven. High compensation and a breakout trajectory.

Cons: Long work hours, because of payroll and tax seasonality, Q4 is stressful.