Pros
-Free lunch catered every Monday -Alcohol in the kitchen refrigerator
Cons
-Lack of upward mobility -Management praises a "Nights and Weekends" work ethic without compensation anywhere near market. It's difficult to defend this as a feature of a start-up if the company is 10+ years old and is buying up actual start-ups -Cycle of acquisition, "paring down"/outsourcing (layoffs post-acquisition) for inorganic growth is tiring and seems a poor substitute for improving customer retention and winning new customers -Major brain drain from the engineers and developers who were sick of the stagnation (or see the writing on the wall, re: outsourcing) creating backlog for maintenance and gaps in institutional knowledge, etc - Open office environment loud and distracting - Product teams clique-ish and siloed
