Pros: - Worked very closely with my team, delivering work directly applicable to the team on a very customer-facing product as an intern. - Had lots of opportunity to hear from the CEO and executives. - Received monthly Fridays off for wellness plus $100 monthly reimbursements for wellness activities. - Good salary. - Relaxed deadlines and no "grinding" or "tech bro" culture. - Received lots of swag. - Experienced lots of clarity about expectations and how to reach them. - Received lots of support from recruiters and the intern team. - Everyone is super nice, friendly, and open about feedback and helping you. - Even though I failed to get an offer from one team, my recruiter passed my information to another team where I received an offer.

Cons: The smallest con: since I started in June, a lot of the intern events happened in the beginning and more in May. So, at around the halfway mark, there wasn't a lot of engagement from the intern team.

Pros: Great pay, enjoyable coworkers, flexible work schedule, partial work-from-home ability.

Cons: Repeatedly cutting back perks (breakfasts, lunches, team outings, massage therapist). Not agile software delivery (three hard deadline releases per year). Very limited travel, even with valid reasons. Attempting to corporatize/homogenize everything in the office (bland white walls, very stock image-type 'culture galleries', nothing can be customized to the city the office is in). Work is becoming more high-stress with arbitrary limitations on how you can perform your job. Many layers of research are required before being able to implement changes due to the overly complex/legacy nature of the software monolith.

Pros: Work-life balance. Vacation and benefits.

Cons: Pay is really low. No refreshers.