Pros: Fast-paced, customer-focused, and ready to take on the fintech world (if it hasn't so already), SoFi is a tech company with a finance charter.

Cons: The BUs (business units) determine the charter for engineering teams. Unlike FAANG, you won’t have the flexibility to choose engineering-driven projects as much.

Pros: Compensation is okay for the first 2 years. So, Friday.

Cons: Culture is completely broken. Pushing the engineering team to think about resiliency but moving all the engineers to report to product. I feel this is a completely broken piece here. Your performance is assessed by product people who only care about delivery. Maybe you just take all the shortcuts to get a good rating for a few years then quit. Another broken piece: the CTO never helped the engineering team establish a good relationship with the BU to make a win-win. Due to the above two, there is no career growth for every single engineer in the team.

Pros: - Remote friendly - Stock potential is good - Very nice and helpful people - Company really cares about their culture

Cons: - When it comes to engineering, the company seems to prefer "buying" technologies as opposed to building things in-house. - Focused more on shipping products as opposed to long-term R&D.