Pros: Good benefits, and management seems to care about making it a good place to work. Coworkers are mostly people who are smart and fun to work with.

Cons: Goal setting exercises feel pointless. Goals often just map to the product road map, and achieving them depends on whether or not the work is prioritized by product management. Any conversation around these goals is rarely stimulating or useful from a career development perspective. I haven't found the HR processes useful at all when it comes to having performance conversations or understanding my performance reviews. Performance assessment seems mostly subjective. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but if it's all subjective in the end anyway, we shouldn't have to spend so much time and effort on pointless reviews and goals. The company has had high attrition rates in the past, so many people have only been with the company a short time.

Pros: The people are 4H: humble, hungry, honest, and happy. I enjoy working with these intelligent and motivated people. You are hard-pressed to find similar technical challenges and career growth opportunities in SoCal, because the systems are highly concurrent and operate at scale with a large existing customer base.

Cons: We are still struggling to develop solid development environments. Our stack is varied and complex, and while we make progress in making development easier for ourselves, there is room for a lot of growth in this area.

Pros: Great startup perks like a gym, phone, and commute reimbursement, lots of beer flowing, trips to conferences, and games to go all around. They give you anything you want for the workplace like a standing desk, MacBook Airs with Thunderbolt displays, and more. There is also the annual company trip to Mexico that is always unforgettable.

Cons: There is a bias and favoritism felt towards the Colorado office. There are many people who work in engineering that do nothing and are lazy. And the others who work hard are not appreciated at all. It takes HR and management a few resignations to see that they need to give mass promotions and raises so it's unorganized and not based on actual merit. They've gone through a few VPs of Engineering in only 2 years, so the engineering department is always unstable.