Pros
1. Pay isn’t bad as long as you know your worth and negotiate a good salary. 2. Nice Bonus 3. Decent RSU with quarterly vesting over 3 years 4. Interesting work when you’re able to focus on it 5. Lots of areas where you could learn new skills or expand experience if you’re given the opportunity.
Cons
1. They say “agile” but it’s actually disorganized chaos and reactive firefighting. 2. No paid holidays… none. Seriously. 3. Unless you negotiate more PTO when hired, expect only 2 weeks off. That’s to cover sick days, vacations, and/or holidays. 4. Terrible work life balance. Expected minimum 9-10 hr days and often you work more than that. Minimum number of hours per week is 55. 5. Management announced permanent remote, but now they’ve walked that back to hybrid with certain days in office. 6. Arbitrary deadlines that push exhausted, understaffed teams even further with no concern or care about employee feedback or well-being. Major burnout on many teams because management won’t backfill positions that have been empty for 2 years, but still place the same or greater workload on teams. People are starting to leave. 7. Constantly sacrificing quality and accuracy for speed creating larger issues and problems downstream for everyone including suppliers. No focus given on fixing these issues before moving on to begin development on the next release and snowballing existing issues in the system. 8. No alignment among the teams creating severe internal conflicts, double work, and rework. 9. Constantly placed in no-win scenarios and then criticized for not meeting expectations. 10. Very cliquish. If you’re in, you do well. If you’re not, it doesn’t matter how well you perform. It’s not good enough or is outright ignored. 11. Performance appraisals rated on a scale of 3 ensuring nobody ever does better than “meets expectations” except for if you’re in the clique. 12. Annual increases are a joke. Don’t expect more than 2%. 13. Attempts at leaving the department for another role routinely get blocked by management. 14. TONS of pointless meetings that eat up your days. 15. Very unsophisticated PM processes and tools. Everything is managed by spreadsheets and management expectations of elaborate PowerPoints for communicating updates, project info, etc. 16. Health insurance benefits are a joke. Worst coverage I’ve ever had ($6k deductible/$13k out of pocket) and the most expensive I’ve ever had.
