The New York Times

• Really smart engineers and product people, with a lot of empathy.
• Incredible work-life balance, with a really flexible schedule depending on the team.
• The core mission of the company (producing great, informative, important journalism) can be very motivating. Not everything we publish resonates this way, but the work that does feels good to be a part of.
• For the most part, I've felt pretty shielded from office bureaucracy/politics in my day-to-day (though I am aware it exists in some parts of the company).

Upper management often comes off as very disconnected, disorganized, and even antagonistic at times.

They don't pay as much as many other tech companies of similar size, which makes retention difficult and hiring to replace people very slow. The company insisted it planned to address that discrepancy, even at some point sending emails about pay raises across the board, but it never happened. Instead, they offered slightly larger RSU grants than normal to senior engineers and above only (still below the rate of peer tech companies they claimed they were comparing their compensation to).

Pay people their market value, and don't tease big pay raises if they're not gonna happen