Pros
The Subscriptions org has wonderful leadership, particularly the director and QA lead. What you ship will be seen by millions of readers, and technical ownership is strongly encouraged. You will own a substantial part of the site and be responsible & accountable for all work related to that domain.
Cons
Compensation is mediocre, we're understaffed and unable to attract and retain talent. No equity, bonuses, or annual increases. Diversity & inclusion initiatives were shallow and insincere. Newsroom/product management set priorities and tech investment is not one of them. Most projects have more to do with internal politics than shipping a great reader experience. We have a lot of boring projects like migrating an app from Angular to React, splitting repositories, migrating AWS infrastructure from one account to another, etc. On-call for most teams, especially backend, can be a terrible experience with a lot of fires to put out.