Pros: Easy, pays fine, some nice people. Actually, a really good product. You can work 3 hours a day and outperform your peers if you are good. The business will be successful too. It's pretty chill and has cool tech.

Cons: Bloat, bad technical leadership in some areas, and an over-focus on planning at the expense of execution. Boring AF.

Pros: Benefits are decent. The main HQ location is great. The product itself is easy to believe in, as it is truly a great product. Free beer.

Cons: Oh boy, where to begin... For starters, the culture is absolutely toxic. People are not accepting of others with contrasting opinions. If you don't fit the consensus, you're an outcast. Multiple times I've overheard racist, sexist, etc., conversations taking place in the elevators and common areas of the office. I've raised issues with this and received no support from my managers, occasionally being told that I need to just bite the bullet and apologize for disagreeing. Work-life balance sucks. Everyone talks a big game about it, but when it comes down to it, people are regularly working late at night, on weekends, and while on vacation. An unlimited vacation policy is useless when you work during the vacation (personally, I think "unlimited" vacation policies are an intrinsic evil, but not everyone agrees). My base salary is fine (though not extraordinary) in my opinion, but there are no bonuses, equity, or other monetary benefits beyond base salary available. I've heard many others complain about poor pay at Toast. I don't know if they are upset about salary or the lack of additional benefits. By far the worst thing about working at Toast, though, is that the leadership does not seem to care about the employees. There was an issue with air quality in the office due to an ongoing remodel. It took 2 weeks of employees complaining of headaches, nausea, and other symptoms, and an employee purchasing an air quality monitor out of their own pocket to get readings (which was subsequently confiscated without a reasonable explanation), before anything was done. What was done was to close the floor and move everyone off-site, but not before making it explicitly clear to everyone not closely involved already that, in leadership's opinion, there was no danger and the move was being done mainly as a result of the complaining, as opposed to out of concern for employee safety. There was a clear adversarial relationship between the employees affected by the air quality issues and the workplace experience team that was supposed to be mitigating it. Note: I left the company voluntarily and was NOT part of the recent COVID-19 layoffs.

Pros: I'm thrilled to be a part of the Toast family. Since starting here, I've seen the company evolve from bands of engineers to highly disciplined, cross-functional teams. The opportunity that we have to become the leader in the restaurant POS industry is the kind that you're lucky to see even once in your career. It remains a privilege to work alongside the incredibly talented team here. Things haven't always been perfect. The last time I reviewed Toast, I had to include a few cons: * Work/life balance could sometimes be stretched. * There was no 401k matching. * Compensation relative to the industry was a little on the low side. Management here listens, and the proof of that is that a little over a year later, all of those concerns have been addressed. Compensation, including equity, feels right for Boston. The 401K match was overdue, but is finally here. The hiring of additional engineering leadership has helped make individual teams function more efficiently and plan their workloads better. We do stupid things a lot less often. For those of us who have been around longer, we are even now also offered a "Toast sabbatical", a one-month long paid vacation provided in addition to your normal annual PTO.

Cons: This is not the kind of workplace you can expect to perform the bare minimum in. Is that even a con?