Pros: * High growth company * One of Canada's top startups * Good overall compensation (pay, bonus, options) * Nice perks (catered lunch pre-covid, food and health allowances, insurance etc)

Cons: * As an employee it feels like leadership's solution to solving problems is often to just throw bodies at the situation. This is especially frustrating when it's an open secret that internally many processes can be improved or known to be flawed in some way, but employees aren't given the time to solve them properly, and eventually things boil over that require mass heroics on the part of employees to overcome. * Lots of internal corporate double speak / marketing speak from leadership. Some all-hands presentations really felt like the whole purpose was to indoctrinate people to the cause rather than to communicate relevant information within the company. * Constant and seemingly random re-orgs. Typical startup growing pain, but this coupled with the other 2 points really made it seem sometimes like there was a disconnect in where some of the real problems lay. * Very opaque career progression paths and salary bands as an individual contributor - literally impossible to get a straight answer from managers about what you should be working on to progress above intermediate. It seems that most managers themselves don't even know, and this leads to a huge disparity between "Intermediate engineer" within the company. * High variance in work life balance - some teams seem to be very relaxed while others seem to be worked to the bone.

Pros: Wealthsimple fosters a very pleasant team culture that allows you to grow as an engineer. There are always interesting projects and initiatives to take on and the company takes care of its employees (for the most part).

Cons: Recent layoffs due to market turbulence which came as a surprise to many. There is also big discrepancies surrounding work-life balance where some teams have it more relaxed than others.

Pros: A company that cares about its clients and its employees. This creats a great environment to work in with great colleagues.

Cons: I can't really think of any.