Pros
Over the last couple of years Overstock has had a reasonable work environment. They generally give you time-off when you need it. Most team leads are knowledgeable, and have had a fair about of experience before being promoted to team lead. The company is going fast, I hope they don't grow too fast and not be able to handle the growth with system/backend support. The current benefits are good, but we may be headed down a bad road going forward.
Cons
- LOTS of red tape. The good: You go through the process of figuring out your requirements, go through the planning process. Business approves all requirements and design. You start coding and are ready to deploy. The Bad: Along comes architecture/upper IT and they say NO we don't like it. We want you to do it differently. - Not enough hardware and deploy support to handle the number of dev teams in the company. - Interview process and interviewee acceptance We want the best there is, but I think we can be slightly less judgmental on who we pick. Allow someone that isn't so set in their ways. We have a very strong development team, so get people that we can work with and help mold them.
