Pros: Salary and compensation, the company's culture, a good office, and a parking lot

Cons: Technology stack and big tech debt overall

Pros: - A *really* great and worthy company mission that is clearly communicated and very motivating. - Ara and Vahe are amazing leaders in my opinion. - Daily work on engineering teams clearly impacts customers' lives in a very positive way. - Able to work at a sustainable pace. - No micromanagement, but strong (and reasonable) expectations of delivery pace. - The compensation and benefits are decent and competitive. - Opportunities to excel and distinguish oneself within team scope.

Cons: - I have absolutely no idea what's going on outside my team besides what I see in official communication channels. - After a year of working remotely (from another state), I still feel very little personal connection with most of my teammates. - The product is *incredibly* vast, and it's all I can do to stay on top of my own team's work. Becoming recognized or even known outside of one's own team is nearly impossible without working at the Staff+ level on a platform or ops team. To have significant cross-team impact, it seems a person has to have what usually amounts to Principal Engineer skills. - As a result of all of the above, building personal connections, even within my own team, has been difficult, and building personal connections with people from other teams has been impossible. For my personality type, it has been hard not to have the sense of motivation that comes from being personally known, trusted, and relied upon by my co-workers. - If you live in the Glendale area or are able to travel there a few times a year (on your own dime), the above problems will be mitigated.

Pros: Pay is great; unlimited PTO; 4.9/5 start; health insurance (prices went up a bit this year, but still really good); very relaxed work environment; lots of tool automation.

Cons: Automation tools in GitHub are extremely slow and will stop on broken unit tests, which may hide other broken tests down the line, requiring multiple runs to see everything that broke. The monolith project takes ages to spin up and begin working on. My work laptop has 64GB of memory, and it is not even close to enough to run everything I need on a daily basis. There are days I need to run 5 C# applications with an additional 2 UI projects. I've had to limit the amount of memory my Docker containers can use to help mitigate my VS from crashing due to lack of memory. There are instances where VS is already 'loaded' but doing stuff in the background, and even just scrolling the current file causes the machine to freeze up and take a while. The deployment process is an absolute nightmare to try and wrap your head around. So many dates about when things are being locked down and have to be tested by. It feels like every 2 weeks there's a new deployment deadline that takes QA resources away from the team. The communication between teams is very much on a 'need to know' kind of basis, where I've asked managers who have been at the company for 5+ years how something works on a high level and they have no idea. Due to the lack of cross-team communication, I feel there is a severe lack of growth opportunity here at ST. I definitely have days where I feel like a 'Code Monkey'.