Pros
Free food Possibility to get rich when IPO (if you don’t mind waiting) People are nice, besides one or two people I had to deal with, the rest of the community was pleasant to work with Since it’s a startup in an interesting domain, many things are new to explore and solve
Cons
Low engineering level, found many underqualified people for their level, and a few overqualified to what their level was Some Interviewers are not able to pass their own questions (from what I saw as shadow), which impacts on hiring bar (either they pick the easiest questions or they can’t judge the candidate’s real level) Teams have no clear domain ownership. Different teams could be working in a component which should be owned by your team No 401k Development environment fails too often, results in people spend a lot of time to troubleshoot (0-2 days) because either no one knows the issue/solution or restarting the environment takes forever.