Pros: Competitive salary and benefits Relaxed work environment (can wear jeans for example) Work with very intelligent people Can use a variety of technologies, whatever is best suited Challenging and fun work with a rapid development flow Little micro management Privately owned so not a lot of bureaucracy

Cons: 50 hour work week (45 in office) Lacks a good tuition reimbursement program, existing one is inadequate Little room for growth and additional responsibility regardless of glowing performance reviews Also work with very incompetent people The catered lunches are pretty awful Very opaque senior management Poor communication between teams which creates redundancy and a lack of ownership No code reviews Working at home greatly discouraged

Pros: TLDR: Great on paper! - Great pay - Healthcare benefits - Lunch in office - Some teams really do have a good culture (as it's so siloed) - Investment into learning - Gym benefit

Cons: TlDR: Dated tech patched over by cowboys; oppressive culture with micromanagement, lack of trust, and no opportunity to grow. - Lower than average holiday, you don't get most bank holidays off - Very long and strict hours, early start - Poor management. A lot of micromanagement - "clock watching" rather than looking at what you actually achieve - Manager never gave feedback, even when directly asked - but then weaponised a lot of secretly kept negative feedback during the yearly review! (instead of giving the feedback at an appropriate time for improvement!) - Manager often made ableist comments, e.g. "jokes" about autism - Banal and uninteresting work - don't expect to be trusted with bigger or more impactful projects, the undocumented knowledge barrier is too high for management to delegate it to you - and no opportunity or plan for progressing past this. - Dated and messy tech stack, with a lot of accrued tech debt. Patching over problems rather than fixing them - Multiple cases of testing in production - Very siloed teams, a lot of repeated work, and culture varied hugely between teams - No internal documentation, nor help channels - had to "know a guy who knew a guy" and direct message them to help - you just get stuck if they're on holiday - Oppressive, stuffy culture, "boys club" vibe - zero diversity, no acknowledgement of LGBTQ+ history month or black history month (but there was a Halloween event... eyeroll) - "Flat structure" just means no transparency about pay or progression path, there's still a hierarchy, just it's hidden - Barely any social events, and people didn't seem to want to socialise or make friends - CEO may as well be on another planet - sitting on his billions, donating millions to the criminal Tr*mp

Pros: Lots of different tools used in work; fast-paced environment,

Cons: The schedule was mostly in-person with longer hours.