A first-cousin of the stagnant days of Microsoft
Pros
* It doesn't take much ambition to be well regarded here. Prepare to shine amidst mediocrity. * Work-life balance is easy to achieve especially if you're among the many who own nothing important and live in production. * Nice benefits and loads of free food/snacks. * Good gig right out of university and potentially to maintain green card status. * Markets itself well as a workplace and product. Strong brand. * A good product for a certain slice of use cases (20%). * Dope office location and buildings in Fremont. * A solid flare of individuality around the office. * College campus 2.0. You can easily find your people here if that's your prerogative. * Good values.
Cons
Welcome to a company trying to be a SaaS and having no idea how to execute or support that effort. * Low pay. Laughably low for many engineering roles. * Operations is a joke; stuck in a bygone Sys Admin era. DevOps? What's that? * Dev talent here is few and far between. * Pockets of bro-culture. * New products are lackluster. * Clunky product for 80% of use cases. Real-time nothing. Visually repulsive compared to a library like d3 or even Power BI. * Super expensive product considering competition. * There's way more middle-management in-fighting and jockeying than you'd ever know as an IC. * Senior management might as well live on the moon. So very disconnected.
