Great people, cool work environment, bad business management
Pros
Angie's List has great, caring, smart and intelligent people. The company culture (at least from a co-worker camaraderie standpoint) is great. People work hard, are dedicated, have a sense of humor and really foster a team spirit. That is vital to the success of any company to get the best employee engagement. The campus is in a really neat, somewhat historic area of Indianapolis. There is an onsite fitness center, an old fashioned diner and a cafe (albeit a little pricey). The compensation is very competitive. The benefits are average with the exception of an additional 5 days of PTO starting than the traditional 15.
Cons
Angie's List is almost the ideal place to work but they have one flaw that is pretty much killing all of the good points of the company. The business management side of the company (probably unbeknownst to them) is doing anything and everything to destroy employee morale. They will just keep sending in an infinite amount of requests to be working, put arbitrary deadlines on them and the requests will usually only have about one sentence from which the engineers are required to glean what they're supposed to do from that using clairvoyance that apparently is an employee requirement. This has created an adervsarial relationship between the business management and the engineering team. There is very low trust, respect and consideration going both ways and that's a BIG problem. In order for companies to be successful that incessantly bickering, complaining and arguing all the time needs to be turned into collaboration. We need to all remember that we are ALL supposed to work together not just in our little cliques to serve the customers and the shareholders as ONE team.