Pros: - High-growth atmosphere provides great opportunities for personal and technical growth. - Excellent engineering management. - The company puts real resources into keeping engineering output high (internal tooling, deploy systems, etc.). - Fun business problems lead to fun technical challenges.

Cons: High growth can sometimes mean fast priority shifts. A few of these in a row can be frustrating, and, as at any company, sometimes communication breaks down in the shuffle.

Pros: - Super interesting and challenging product - Smart engineers around

Cons: The middle management I worked with reacts to feedback in a highly unprofessional manner. Instead of working to improve, they blame you for not being a good fit for the environment (their exact words). The hypocrisy of middle management is striking. They may give you positive feedback in person, but provide a completely different assessment to your direct manager or other internal stakeholders. Moreover, you have no visibility into this hidden feedback. The incompetence of middle management (the so-called “roadmap keepers”) is evident. The long-term roadmap changes constantly, often without any clear reason. You might plan a major strategic piece of work and start executing it, only for it to be suddenly deprioritized. Then, after switching to something else, that same deprioritized initiative might reappear as the top priority. This is not the expected agility of working with a backlog in response to new requirements or customer feedback. I’m talking about large strategic initiatives planned on a quarterly basis that keep shifting without justification. The salary is fairly average. They expect you to work as if you were in a FAANG company, yet they are unwilling to compensate you accordingly.

Pros: They paid me a lot of money.

Cons: My boss didn't have the coding chops of a high school kid. He had us tracking old static build files and asked us to resolve merge conflicts with every pull, as if that wasn't totally insane and akin to moving sand with tweezers. I spent multiple hours on Zoom with my colleagues, walking them through Vue, JavaScript in general, and often just writing their code for them. They presented this work as their own, to much praise from the VPs, while making absolutely no mention of me at all. They'd often ask a question on Slack, then delete the message from the archives to remove evidence that they had needed help.