Pros
+ Product-driven culture that celebrates innovation + Wears culture on its sleeve; company values regularly get name-checked + An international company where English is spoken with many, many different accents + You are free to speak your mind, regardless of your role + Offices are beautiful and focused on collective space; no cubicles and few offices + Large % of employees take part in sporting activities (running, bike riding, soccer, basketball, yoga) during the workday; totally acceptable to be sitting at lunch in sweaty gym clothes
Cons
- Trying to do too many things at once; tendency to ship things that are 70% done - CEOs reinforce culture of snobbery of engineering toward marketing - Somewhat cliquish; social acceptance often correlated to participation in binge drinking - Managers tend to be too busy to manage - Workaday conversation is awash in needless acronyms/codenames - Critical company-built systems are regularly down during business hours, crippling productivity