Pros: 1. Good amount of work where you can learn like any start up in valley 2. Lots of positive energy 3. Invests a lot of in branding and marketing which I hope will help us with a better IPO 4. Unless there is a screw up or market down trend, I expect them to be successful for few year at least 5. Free food and snacks

Cons: 1. Pay and stock options are not to Silicon Valley standards. I made a mistake by discussing my current compensation, where I had taken a pay cut as I was in a startup and they low-balled. I negotiated for a while, but they had explanations like, "If we go beyond this, you will be above our current employees, and we can't do that." But after getting the offer, I realized that's not the case. 2. There is truth to being partial to Google/Facebook/Stanford. I have experience where an internally referred resume, with a strong recommendation of a new grad with 5 years of experience, was not moving forward because they were not from Stanford or a top tier university. There are still claims of mostly ex-Google/Facebook employees in marketing materials. This was true with the founding team, but I'm sure it is diluted now.

Pros: Good pay and solid benefits. Hopes of an IPO in the near future? Decent office perks (before COVID struck, at least). Potentially interesting and challenging engineering work.

Cons: Technical debt issues galore. Management isn't receptive to concerns of ICs, especially more junior ICs. Overall direction can be extremely inconsistent and unclear.

Pros: 1. Good quality engineering staff 2. High standards in engineering practices 3. Free food, but only up to $X.

Cons: 1. CEO keeps changing strategy every year. 2. WLB is extremely bad. Get ready to work 12hr+ in two time zones over 6 days a week. 3. Management and leadership have unreal expectations and push more demanding excellence and impact with limited resources. 4. Favoritism is shown by managers. 5. Promo promises and peanut raises. 6. Bonus is constantly reduced, mentioning uncontrollable reasons such as war, market conditions, IPO. 7. Rapid exodus of talent and people waiting to get out. 8. Burnout is rampant in eng. 9. Managers and leadership expect high quality, but they fail to exhibit the same. 10. No 401k match and no on-call bonus.