Pros: On the engineering side, we work with the best and still very humble individuals. The founders and CTO are still very hands-on in design and implementation; even our Toronto team meets them weekly. The company values product and operational quality, so we invest lots of time to get things right. Still, we are moving fast (although it doesn't feel like it) and have a really bold vision, especially for the app platform and Enterprise AI. The Snowflake-as-a-product is loved by customers. It's pleasant to hear it when you tell people you're from Snowflake. There's a good balance of top-down and bottom-up management to avoid politics, have a shared vision, and preserve team autonomy.

Cons: At times, processes tend to be heavy. Internal dev infra isn't great, but it is being improved. As a relatively young company, we're often intuition-based rather than data-driven in decision making.

Pros: It's good. It wants to be better.

Cons: Developer velocity & tooling are weak points. The number of horizontal efforts and company-wide priorities makes it difficult to make progress sometimes. Performance ratings and leveling are documented well on paper but not in practice. There is a wide range of performance, quality, and skills in managers, even within the same level. Leveling almost feels arbitrary.

Pros: Lots of opportunity for growth.

Cons: None that I can think of.