Pros: Work-life balance is good.

Cons: Nothing much, but since the company is growing, the work-life balance might change eventually.

Pros: Flexibility in WFH One of the best health insurance plans 400 euro bi-annual voucher to spend on home office / amenities 1050 euro education stipend 900 home office stipend which has been deprecated as of May 2024 and has been replaced by the 400 euro bi-annual voucher Often breakfast / lunch from various customer restaurants of Toast in Dublin Often team events Often volunteering opportunities with Toast.org Very nice volunteering program where each employee receives 25 euro to donate to a selected charity through Toast.org 4 weeks sabbatical after 5 years of service In office snacks / coffee / drinks (alcohol and soft) Rich parental leave program All the other standard benefits - Tax Save / Bike To Work

Cons: Toast's unlimited PTO is a tale. When I started, it was promoted as unlimited; however, that quickly changed to be flexible. Toast gives 20 days statutory PTO, which is a rolling balance, and any days in excess of that are at the manager's discretion. Non-production environments are a nightmare, often non-functional due to too much freedom to release breaking changes. This has often caused days of delays trying to figure out why pre-production is unstable and non-functional, leading to high levels of frustration and low morale in the team. Some technical decisions are questionable and non-logical. One of them being that DynamoDB is being pushed for everything. LaunchDarkly is being used as a feature flag across Toast, even for non-product features, which makes absolutely no sense. One downside of Dublin is that directors, especially in Fintech, try to promote a culture of zero outages/accidents, which leads to engineers being reluctant to declare an incident. This isn't the case with their US counterparts.

Pros: Very social, made lots of friends.

Cons: The pay was low compared to other companies.