Pros
Recruiters and in house devs are talented, motivated, and enthusiastic. Overall great co-workers. You get a pizza party when people get fired!
Cons
Management froze dev salaries 3 days before the one year performance review. Reason given was: "app is not profitable" - if you have even a small understanding of what engineers do this should be a red flag. Engineering management has no authority or autonomy and is forced to follow the whims of C levels who do not participate in the engineering/product process. Entire product team was recently outsourced and the development team is probably next. I would speculate that the (functional but admittedly flawed) product that is already released and handling every user Vangst GIGS has is likely to be scrapped. If that is the case it will be rebuilt at extraordinary cost as they are to be built by an external consultancy that was recently hired. Market research was seemingly an afterthought and even after it was done it was largely ignored. This companies oversight regarding engineering is the epitome of seagull management.