Pros: Great experience, great technology. Always an opportunity to learn new tech.

Cons: Very busy, lots of priorities.

Pros: Nothing but the name and fame comes with an old company.

Cons: Micro-management at its best!!! Pay rate is at least $30K-$40K less than the market rate for the same role. Recruiting and taking advantage of college grads who will do anything to land their first job is the norm here. They hire with very low pay and loads of work. Multiple roles are squeezed into a single role with lousy pay! Lousy and cheap tech stacks and tools! Health insurance is subpar with high deductibles and little to no company allowance. No wellness or technology benefits! Hostile environment, lots of red tape, secret surveillance, cliques, coercion, and a fear-mongering culture! Every couple of weeks, employee outbursts and demonstrations in front of the building are very common!

Pros: The only two things that come to mind are: 1. We have a union! 2. The [unearned] prestige that comes with the “name”

Cons: 1. Horrible comp. Every engineer here could make 2x as much at a small tech company easily. (But we’re stuck here out of fear of getting laid off elsewhere) 2. While we have a union, we’re not able to take advantage of that as much yet because leadership keeps stalling. They are not acting in good faith and have actually committed blatant status quo violations (changing our working conditions by mandating return to office, removing COVID vaccination requirements for entering the building, surveilling our badge data and using it for performance reviews, removing conference budgets). Even the NLRB has warned them of their behavior, and no change has been seen in response. 3. The insidious racism, sexism, homophobia, etc. is disgusting, especially for a place that thinks so highly of itself. 4. Engineering culture - NYT has been around for 170+ years, and the state of its technology reflects that. It’s impossible to get anything done here in a way that’s sustainable. 5. No career growth once you get to the senior title.