Pros
The lunches are free The office is downtown There is free parking The hours are flexible Good lunch options downtown Decent quarterly parties Several very smart engineers
Cons
NOT A TECH COMPANY. WP Engine is really a support company. Supporting individual customers and all their crazy decisions until everything falls apart. What a customer wants is always trumps technical decisions. A lot of the technology is dated and new ideas and technologies are impossible to implement. Good managers are far and few between. There are a lot of politics and favorites. There is a lot of kool-aid drinking. The core values they preach are only followed if it matches the company's needs. Very little planning. Work is only done on things that are broken that very minute. Plan on working a lot. It is not uncommon to work 80 hour weeks because some customer broke their wordpress site. They will "ask you to leave" if they do not like your ideas. I saw this happen to people. You have to make the right people happy or you are gone. Not a happy place to work.
