Pros: - Nice people to work with. - Good atmosphere. - Free lunches (Lunch On Us card, you get $500/quarter and can buy lunch at participating restaurants around downtown). - Good work/life balance.

Cons: - Small cog in huge machine. - Sometimes you work with really old, uninteresting legacy software. - The range of software you must learn and fix is very large. - They want you to be able to do everything from manual testing to debugging of highly complex code.

Pros: - Nice work environment, friendly coworkers, big monitors, and decent hardware for programming. - Not too much stress related to delivery. - Stock plan, RRSP matching, and other good benefits. - Good place to put in your time and go home after.

Cons: Everything is “enterprisey” – everything moves slowly, with lots of red tape and politics in the way of doing the right thing. There was a long-term vision of building a giant monolithic database to compete with Oracle, but written in JavaScript. Separate, lengthy legal approvals were needed for every software library, including basics like jQuery. I was at meetings where we were told customers didn’t buy our software because it was good or usable, but because they were contractually obligated to. If you have passion for and take pride in what you build, this is not a place for you.

Pros: Really chill, good culture and environment.

Cons: Everyone is really chill. [Read: lazy]