Pros: Cutting-edge technology, products, team.

Cons: The benefit should be improved a little more.

Pros: There is a good work-life balance, and they pay well with a very good overall compensation. Yearly raises and bonuses are part of the company policy. The company cares about its employees. The office is very nice, and the work culture is very good.

Cons: It is a global company with multiple worldwide locations and some bureaucracy drag. It is not too much and probably unavoidable. While the company prides itself on being innovative, my personal innovation suggestions were stymied. I got good support from my immediate manager and one level after him, but after that, I was stymied by some bureaucracy and indifference from mid-level management. I am not sure if it is common or just my case.

Pros: - Up-to-date tech stack and ability to gain experience with many different platforms, tools, and languages. - Core engineering team has many talented people who are ready to help. - Dynamic development

Cons: Work/life balance doesn't exist. You start the day on Israeli time and finish deployment in the evening on Pacific time. Engineering team is not valued – don’t expect positive feedback from management. Management routinely sets unrealistic deadlines and changes priorities. As a result, new features are rushed into production without proper design, code reviews, coordination between teams, or testing. In the next development cycle, engineers spend a lot of time fixing bugs introduced in the previous cycle and fall further behind on the next tasks. Compensation for long-time employees is significantly below market rate – annual raises are ridiculous. The C-suite is trying to save every penny on employees’ salaries. For example, the 2021-year inflation adjustment raise was announced in March… to be paid as part of next year’s January bonus! Career growth in Waltham is near zero. A perfectly competent developer may wait 5–6 years for promotion from engineer III to senior engineer. Often the promotion comes without a salary increase. Three quarters of recent hires in Engineering are on H-1B visas, most from the same country. This is the situation not just with individual contributors, but on many levels of management too. This allows the company to keep a high retention rate while keeping salaries low, setting harsh deadlines, and working people to exhaustion. Diversity is on the decline. HR is occupied with getting various awards like the ‘best company to work for…’ and has no interest in retaining talent or making ZI a good place to work.