Pros: - Annual "Wise Days" trip to Estonia. Probably going to be phased out. - Some of the developers are good. - Attractive new Austin office.

Cons: Toxic work environment. Management bullies people into talking badly about others behind their backs. Employees are often fired without notice and with no severance, even if they are on work visas. Management is inexperienced and consistently makes bad business decisions, costing the company millions. Middle management walks around in suits every day showing off their Rolexes, while most of the employees (customer service) are making minimum wage. The company is trying hard to be a FAANG, but doesn't understand marketing and doesn't pay enough to attract decent talent.

Pros: Fast-moving company with an up-to-date tech stack and a huge zoo of technologies you work with.

Cons: - Excess cross-team communication. - Excess amount of organizational meetings (plannings/retros/etc.). - Becoming more corporate style.

Pros: There's some good technology, and a lot of good engineers you can work with and build some things.

Cons: Typical scale-up treadmill issues are deeply rooted in low compensation. Incompetent, low-caliber managers and workplace politics are the things that make Wise NOT a place you want to work for. The business is overselling the dream of 'changing the world' (ultimately for someone else's fat pocket) and has created a cult to keep people overdelivering. Couple this with woke/identity politics and reverse discrimination in the name of 'USA style diversity' because it helps funding, and you have the perfect toxic laboratory.