Pros
Base pay is very good, even if total comp lags. Blink Health is fully remote at least through 2024. It's good if you don't want an office and live in a place they have an office if minds change after. Even with extreme pressure to work more hours, not quite as toxic as a few big employers. Employees usually try to help each other even if some toxic managers discourage spending time to help other teams. CEO trying to be more open about the company's finances in "Blink Sync" confidential all-hands meetings. Even scary numbers feel better than being lied to for employees.
Cons
Big changes in the last few months to squeeze engineers while other companies did big layoffs. All engineering employees had to sign docusigns agreeing to new terms or leave. Unlimited PTO was removed retroactive to 1/1/2023 now only 3 weeks per year no matter tenure or seniority. PTO does not pay out if you exit. PTO does not carry over every year. Leadership says they are maybe looking into making PTO better somehow some day but no promises and they needed to rush out the new limits before considering anything else. Some bad managers already tried to haggle for years about any PTO. Work hours are not flexible anymore. You must work 8 hours at a specific US times even if you are working remote overseas. Hours feel a little better for east coast than others on west coast US time. If you work late or early, even if you have to for on call, that doesn't count toward the 8 hour day and you could be fired. Working overseas or away from home address is now limited. Employees must also submit forms for permission to move more than a small number of miles even in the same US state. Interviews for real engineering jobs in the US seem to have unofficially stopped a year ago. People who leave are not replaced. Teams are falling apart and some old projects are being thrown to other teams to own to make up for lost headcount. Moves by management feel random and desperate. A couple of good direct managers are here but many are toxic. Have to cross your fingers about the team you land on. Lots of "yes men." Most middle management is now focused only on giving the best dates to upper management and ignore actual work. The toxic direct managers yell at employees to work more if estimated launch dates make them look bad with middle managers. Product launches usually not given time to do most work right, just get it out the door and hope to fix it later. There is never a later unless it breaks so badly pharmacy technicians are screaming about it or new features built on it are impossible. Upper management says biggest priorities are major tech debt, new architecture and spending less money on cloud services. Actual priorities are new features and new clients to try to increase the company's cash ASAP without hiring more people to do the work. The CEO uses big meetings to blame company problems on all employees not working hard enough, and not taking their jobs seriously enough. Loves to talk about how hard our company's mission is. Hard to say if the stock options will ever be worth any money. Feels like recruiters were given bad numbers to tell people for years or just made things up. No 401k matching. Health and other insurance matches most of industry but is not a leader.