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• Hybrid: WFH twice a week.

• Work from abroad for a month per year.

• Lunch, snack, coffee, and tea are free.

• No strict dress code; just come as you are.

• Multicultural workforce and LGBTQ+ tolerance.

• If you don't let the cons get under your skin, the work/life balance is pretty good.

• Pay could be better, as it does not match the salary range of other big tech companies.

• Micromanagement is hardcoded into the culture of the company; however, the weight of micromanagement is subject to the team lead.

• Meritocracy is nonexistent. The performance reviews are a joke and are often used as a tool to force out employees and make excuses for paying lower bonuses, rather than as a reflection and improvement tool.

An employee could do the work equivalent of going to the moon and back, and the performance review outcome will be an M for "constantly meets expectations" if not M- for "occasionally meets expectations", based on nonsensical KPIs or KPIs that are out of the employee's control. This practice is well-documented in the media and can be verified with a quick online search.

• Career progression is at least slow, if not nonexistent.

• "Always Day 1" is supposed to be a core cultural value that emphasizes an entrepreneurial mindset and a startup-like approach to work. However, this is not exactly the case. This value is frequently used as a "swim or sink" excuse for poor managerial decisions and last-minute changes to crucial aspects of the job requirements.

Higher management needs to reflect on their practices, change their approach and culture before these backfire on them.