Pros: This is a company that believes in its journalistic mission as a means of enriching society. It's important, and it's a great feeling that you are a part of that. In the NYT, you get to work with many technologies covering latest 3rd party APIs, internal APIs, EC2, PHP, JavaScript, mobile (iOS, Android), internal CMS, feed services, and more. Colleagues are sharp, good-natured, and great to work with. Management within the software group are themselves software devs. Depending on your project, you get to collaborate with editorial and build one of the largest news sites on the planet. Finally, there is an active roadmap to harnessing developer ideas and using that to drive innovation on the website and within the organization.

Cons: Nothing worse than what you'd expect at other companies, and you would learn to navigate around it. Product and Ad people try to get last-minute features included after requirements freeze. Sometimes there are too many people at too many meetings (easy to avoid once you recognize they don't need to be there). As the company continues its push to digital first/print second, there are a number of depts from the print side that are struggling to stay relevant and thereby attaching a voice to projects they don't need to be in. Again, avoidable once you realize this.

Pros: Some groups (e.g., digital) are great at encouraging developers to try new things in their spare time (e.g., prototypes of new technologies). It's not an "enterprise-y" culture; i.e., we're free to use open source tools like MongoDB, Memcache, etc.

Cons: Some groups (e.g., corporate IT) are stuck in 1985. It can be incredibly frustrating dealing with some "Application Specialist" whose primary job skill is restarting a Lotus Notes server.

Pros: Great mission. The New York Times has been updating/expanding its engineering culture for many years and has improved a lot of aspects such as interviewing, promotions, and the general working environment.

Cons: The organization is a bit dispersed, and there is difficulty getting alignment on new projects.