Pros: Real customer focus. A lot to learn from your colleagues. Awesome drive in people, great community, and so much more! Travelling, getting to know people, flexible and supporting environment.

Cons: Ehm... Well, the coffee machine breaks sometimes.

Pros: Truly autonomous small teams that sync up every quarter, all working on a product and vision that everybody can truly be proud of. Amazing pace of software development: I was able to release to production on my first workday. The team did huge structural changes in a few months, but no feature branch was open for more than 10 days; typically, it was 1-4 days. Everybody is treated as an adult and is assumed to have the best intentions. For example: * There are virtually no restrictions on business travels. * On the first few sick days, you just notify your team and stay at home, with no paperwork.

Cons: Most of the workforce is young and hip; it is easy to feel yourself old.

Pros: Okay, if you like startup environments.

Cons: Career growth depends on networking rather than merit. Pay is well below average, and management doesn't give out bonuses and hasn't increased the salary bands in 2023, despite the company seeing record profits. Work/life balance is awful, as you are constantly peer-pressured into traveling to other countries for company events that last several days. Company culture is trying to scare engineers into not asking for salary raises while asking them to work four different jobs at once because of a lack of middle/project/product managers. Engineers are promoted to managers randomly, with no training. A high number of first-time managers make life impossible for engineers. Independence of teams is worshipped, even as it has become clear to everyone for quite some time that the company needs a hierarchical structure to get things done properly. Independent teams are a waste of everyone's time and mental health, but management refuses to address the issue. Salaries are kept low with the excuse that "we're a growth company, your shares will grow a lot," but a quick look at the stock market cap over the past two years debunks this myth.