Pros: - Get to work with smart, driven people. - Can pick up many new skills working here. - Free catered lunch every day, snacks, drinks, etc.

Cons: - Top-down culture of fear at the company. There are no 360 reviews here, so performance is only evaluated by your direct manager, with no real input from anyone else. As a result, people are afraid to speak up to the CEO and CCO, who are a husband/wife duo. This fear trickles down to the rest of the organization. - Hire-to-fire culture, borrowed straight from the Amazon playbook. The expectation is that each performance cycle, 20% of all employees will be "below the bar" and will eventually get pushed out. Employee churn is constant. - Work-life balance does not exist here. Be prepared to work nights and weekends. - There are several people in exco and lower management that are straight-up incompetent. More than a few managers here have no idea how to build/grow a team, motivate people, or give actionable feedback. - Favoritism and office politics are a mainstay here. - Promotions are infrequent and often denied for dubious reasons, as the company tends to hire externally rather than grow existing employees. - Despite there being many interesting technical problems to solve, engineering teams are frequently not given enough scope to achieve the business impact needed for promotion. - Compensation is not competitive with market rates, despite a high hiring bar. - Tech stack has a surprising amount of legacy code and poor architectural decisions that don't scale well.

Pros: - Catered lunches - Amazing people

Cons: Working here will give you some unique technical challenges, as well as an opportunity to work with some of the brightest minds in the industry. However, the culture is toxic, and there are many underlying issues with the company. With the new wave of Amazon executives, the company has taken a turn for the worse. The culture is now a culture of PICs/PIPs and performance management. Employees are now under constant stress to not only meet the expectations of their role but also to try and sell themselves to anyone and everyone so that they can remain viable. This, of course, creates an environment that is full of fear and one-upmanship and takes the joy out of the job. It is a constant struggle mentally, and it shows on the faces of the employees daily. Many employees are waiting for the IPO, which keeps being delayed over and over again. It's a running joke that IPO is "one year away," but this catchphrase has been used for the past 3 or 4 years. Think twice and thrice if you are considering working here. Management is not transparent, though they would like to think they are. Surveys are not anonymous, even though they continue to remind us that they are. There is constant turnover; don't let the company try to convince you otherwise. They will say they have not had to lay off people en masse (like Google, Amazon, etc.), but they either performance manage people out (in droves, around 40 the last quarter), or they make people redundant only to fill their roles a few months later, or people just quit in disgust. Recently, a number of employees were made redundant. The company held a meeting to let the employees know. Afterwards, the employees were asked if they had any good jokes to tell. Seriously, what is wrong with the management here? To work here, you'll need to wade through a daily minefield of favoritism, deceit, and fear. Make sure you understand what you are getting yourself into.

Pros: Autonomy - The leadership team empowers every individual to own outcomes and operate in a manner that allows them to unlock their full potential and drive value. Ideation - Every individual's opinions and design proposals are heard and valued. There are venues and processes to support green-field ideation. High-performance growth - We are building a high-performing e-commerce technology product at a rapid rate. I was able to learn new technologies and processes at a faster rate than I would have at any other company. Personal learning and lifestyle budget - Employees have a generous budget for self-learning, conferences, and books, along with career coaching & wellness budgets for fitness. Community - The smartest and well-rounded group of individuals I have worked with. Culture - Free lunch daily, dog-friendly, ERGs, annual company offsite, company swag, interest groups, etc.

Cons: There are an abundance of complex problems to solve. Sometimes this can become difficult when coordinating across multiple teams, departments, and third parties to deliver features. Four days a week in the office. I would prefer three days in the office and two days remote. It is worth noting there is some flexibility if you have extenuating circumstances.