Pros: 1. Gives a good amount of responsibility, ownership, and freedom to employees. 2. Good package. 3. Awesome colleagues!! 4. Location.

Cons: 1. High health insurance premium. 2. Increasing workload and not able to hire enough qualified engineers.

Pros: I have been with Roku for a bit longer than a year now, and am very grateful to work here. Looking from the perspective of a software engineer, this place has a lot to offer: solving interesting problems, lots of latest-and-greatest technology to play around with, and the pay is competitive. You will have your technology skills in spades after working here because the projects are very diverse. I have worked with our well-known partners and customers that are household brands, which is another aspect of the work here. Whatever you do here has an immediate effect on millions of Roku users. The perspective of software design and even some coding aspects is greatly influenced by how this will affect the end users.

Cons: The only serious complaint I have is the expensive health coverage, since the company does not seem to cover that much compared to other places I have worked. Also, the 401(k) is not matched. Depending on a team, your "social load" can vary. These include meetings, emails, discussions, etc. I personally do not like the formalism of meetings, but I guess they come with the territory of being a senior developer in a company that is already pushing the 400+ headcount.

Pros: A great upstart is coming that is doing a great job competing against other companies 10x its size (Apple and Amazon). It has definite success in the streaming video space, but needs to keep innovating and closing big deals to supply the platform with great content. Fast-paced (like any tech company) but good work/life balance. There are always going to be those crunch times, but thankfully they are few and far between. It's a place where you can have a family and a career. Very much like being @Apple minus the politics, back-stabbing, and narcissism that runs apparent there. (Though you also don't have fancy buildings, cafeterias, or huge corporate presences).

Cons: Benefits could be better. They model from Netflix, but Netflix pays higher salaries, which balances out the higher cost of benefits. Roku tries to offset, but still, I pay over 3x what I was paying at my previous company. We need to figure out a better way. They want senior people, which means they usually have families, but the benefit offering is more for a young, single person. Sometimes communication could be better, especially in making decisions. Also, there are no reviews (which is a good thing), but it also means it's very difficult to get a raise (or promotion). So, come in as high as you can; you may be at that salary level for a while.