Pros: Great company, working with very bright minds and nice people.

Cons: A touch on the slow side, development speed-wise, but you get that with larger companies.

Pros: Perks of a startup: * Free food and beer. * Poker nights. * Company outings. * Etc. Nice open offices with good lighting. Plenty of quiet rooms as well. Upper management actively seeks feedback about the company and tries to communicate on a regular basis.

Cons: The engineering team is always under the gun with tight deadlines. The reason for this is that the codebase for the product has grown piecemeal, and progress towards refactoring into manageable components has stalled over and over. Code releases are a headache as every team ends up pushing new features into the same codebase at the same time to make the cutoff for check-ins, only for conflicts to arise as commits conflict. There's a strange lack of autonomy when it comes to developing features; every project has to be signed off by an architect or team lead, who happen to be the original developers of the product. Management may solicit feedback but won't act on suggestions for the engineering team. Upper management seems at a loss how to deal with the lack of productivity within the group. If you're not committed to working nights and weekends, expect your review to reflect that you may not be a "culture" fit.

Pros: Work-life balance is very good. Free to be myself. People are kind, respectful, and considerate. Toast's "culture" is what other tech companies say their culture is.

Cons: I can't really think of any cons. At times, the tech debt can feel like a lot to deal with, but that can be said for most tech companies.