Pros: - Decent compensation - Decent benefits - Nice work pace - Large engineering presence

Cons: Don't expect growth unless you're coming from Square or somewhere that the engineering managers worked before. Nepotism is extremely prevalent here. You need broad shoulders to carry the blame you'll get when issues arise. Toast will hire less-experienced engineers to elevated positions, and then require the tenured employees to pick up the slack, all while never promoting from within.

Pros: - Remote - Generally nice and collaborative coworkers - Benefits and compensation if you joined at a low stock price.

Cons: Crazy amount of meetings (20+ hours/week) resulting in no decisions or progress. More often than not, there are times when you have 3-4 hours of back-to-back meetings and no time to take a dump or do actual work. Then, if you are in an org that needs to interface with overseas teams, expect meetings at night from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. This means no downtime to watch TV, go out for date nights, or put your kids to sleep. I would not recommend joining such a team unless you are single or really don’t like your family. General disorganization where you need to monitor random channels with hundreds of people who shoot out random questions into the void. Requirements and design decisions change on a whim. Decisions by committee where everyone can provide different opinions, and no one is there to make a final consensus.

Pros: Good team to work with, and an integrated environment. One team culture and people with a hospitality mindset. Good learning phase for freshers as well as experienced people.

Cons: No barriers to work and shine in a tech career here.