Pros
Both pro and a con, the hustle of the people here. I admire just how much and how passionate people here care about Flipp and want to make things work. The pay. Flipp says they're a top competitor in compensation, but having shopped around quite a bit, i haven't found a company that could beat all of Flipp's extrinsic offerings. (Most) of the people you'll meet here. Can say that you will make friends here. People do try to make you feel included and they do fun, impromptu things to make each other happy and to feel inclusive.
Cons
I've had a good time here, but this is where you need to choose your own adventure. I'll preface this with the mentality of "chopping wood vs axe sharpening". And frankly, the long you're here, the longer you'll feel that your chopping bricks with your face. But in seriousness, there are moral decisions that you will have to make and live with amongst yourself, your contribution to your team, your absolute loyalty to the company, and your obligations to leadership. The hustle here is contagious. You want to be part of the energy that leads to success and ride that rush when you win together. What you'll start to notice over time is what that win costed you personally and whether or not that was a win worth making. This is where the downfalls start. Winning for the sake of winning, isn't winning. Flipp is incredibly win oriented without thinking about what the win really means for everyone. These wins often come from ideas that contradict the product as a whole, statements about vision from only months before, or completely breaking the technology to something less serviceable just because it seemed like a good idea in someone's head (with no recovery strategy). It's been stated here before, but the cult-ish mentality is quite prominent and often, will affect your performance here. Being of "one-mind" of "one-goal" sounds like one cohesive team working in one direction, but what happens in practice is the need to conform. Opinions and directions here are completely absolutist. If you have an opinion/idea outside of the "current vision", be prepared to have a terrible time here. There's such a thing as to do the right thing vs doing the thing that keeps yourself off of the crosshairs of upper management. . ******THOUGHTS TO TAKE HOME******* Choose: do what you're told or do what's right. You will do well if you stay within your own bubble and do what you're told. Going above and beyond just isn't worth the risk you take with yourself and your health. Choose: work with your team or work with your company Your interaction with your immediate peers within your team is fantastic (most of the time). As you start to move up and get more involved with other teams, it starts to become more toxic. There's a lot of throwing over the fence here. You start to question the integrity of people when they're more than willing to sell you out and heighten their career at your expense. Choose: your work or your career Learning opportunities here will fizzle out within the first few years. To be honest, this might be the lifecycle of any large product company, including giants like Shopify. Flipp's tech stack can't really move because of the number of things we have to support. The tech stack and practices here are antiquated and it's really hard to change things. There aren't a lot of leaders that can help you grow with 2018 tech, let alone anything that came from 2015 and beyond. Think carefully about how you want to grow and what you want to do. You'll get some of that at Flipp. But start keeping track of what you're actually learning and where you can get better knowledge fostering from. Choose: company integrity or moral integrity At some point, you will be forced to choose to make decisions that will make you feel like crap inside. The lying, the deceit, the word crafting to elude others from the real truth. In the short term, this could mean a bigger pay cheque for you or getting upper management to give you praise. In the real world, this decision has made a negative impact on how we will learn to treat others and how we can abuse the trust of our customers and clients. Choose: spending time with people you value at work or spending time with people you value in your life There might be some intersections here. If there's one thing I regret at my time here so far is how many people i've blown off and taken for granted. There are some really cool people i work with here but that had to come at the expense of pushing off time with my family and my childhood friends. Flipp is so good and making you feel "at home" that you don't want to leave either because of the awesome peers, or the multitude of distractive work to keep you here. I've given the excuse that "im too busy at work" or "i can't make it any more" so often that I failed to realize how many people in my life i've let down. It's reached a point where they just dont bother any more. Trust me, you won't notice this before it's too late. Choose: following a leader or following an model example Being the most outspoken person in the room does not make this person the wisest. Yes, this is drinking the Kool-Aid. There's no denying the charisma and power of influence that our CEO has. That's why he's such a great speaker. Not to mention, every Monday feel like Flipp Church. There's something deceptively inspirational that you believe you're feeling every week and so you keep going back. But as the years go on, you realize that this form of inspiration porn is no different from listening to a TED Talk. They're thoughts, not actions. They're things you should consider, not things you should blindly agree to. They're ideas that open a landscape of creativity, not requirement you should be working on. If you've read all the above and are still considering employment here, I hope Flipp does not have any other surprises in store. If you've read all the above and are employed here, I hope I'm not misrepresenting the truths that Ive witnessed here. In either case, think about the trade-offs and decide what's right for you.