Pros: Working on a really cool product, and the relaxed culture.

Cons: There are some people who are just slackers.

Pros: Strong culture of respecting work-life balance, with above-average compensation for the industry. The work is interesting with great in-house support and platforms.

Cons: Not many advancement opportunities after reaching Senior Engineer.

Pros: Salary was pretty good. My stock tripled in value when they bought Joe Rogan. Food and perks were good.

Cons: Be really careful what team you get placed on when you start. I got placed into the Financial Engineering org, which operates separately from the rest of the engineering organization. It's much closer to working at a bank than a traditional software engineering organization. Deadlines are very much done in the "waterfall" model you see in banks, rather than a normal agile sprint organization. Engineering is seen mostly as a cost center function to support financial analysts, and there's very little room for product feedback or creative input from the engineering function. As for the overall direction of the company, I didn't really get it. I love the music product, but the podcast product is really terrible and is dragging down the rest of the product. All of the all-hands are the company leadership apologizing for terrible things Joe Rogan says. It's just not a place I felt proud of anymore.