Pros
- Company has a good Long Term vision - Stable Employment (rare lay offs) - young culture comes with lots of enthusiasm - Centralized tools + processes (Ubiquitous revision control system is nice)
Cons
- Stable employment with no lay offs means that you sacrifice stability for in ability to advance or get pay raises... keeping the fat makes less resources for the solid performers - young culture = low experience, hence they have processes and micro management that makes a person who is intelligent and doesn't need a baby sitter have a tough time getting around the process to just get something basic done - Consensus culture is a pain, decisions are slow... software teams try to design everything before they start implementing anything... and that never works... you have to prototype - managers are young and in experienced - too much LabView Koolaid..(Labview is an engineering tool... not a programming language)