Pros: - Really enjoy working with co-workers. - Engineering problems are at a scale and complexity that is very interesting. - A good size where an individual contributor can still make material impacts on the business, and scale is a material consideration. - The fast pace to keep the business growing at ~40% / year means lots of opportunities for growth. - Great compensation and benefits.

Cons: - Engineering calls while Sydney office is online can stretch the workday to late hours. - The fast-paced environment can be uncomfortable for some and is not for everyone. - On-call rotations lead to deeper service mastery, but there are occasional wake-up pages. - Management can make big pivots with poor initial explanations.

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: Learned a lot. Things changing a lot means you learn a lot. Talented co-workers.

Cons: A little bit messy, unclear directions, and things changing very often out of your control.