Pros
Tbh, any pros you get here can be found in any other company: - Free coffee - Free Snacks - Cool benefits ($300 per year on gym memberships, $300 per year on commenting/biking) - Access to Museums and Events around NYC for free
Cons
- No growth, as a senior. you will rarely get a chance to grow and get more senior. They will continue to dump random (management) responsibilities on you until you can be a Manager. - Some team engineers are don't even code all that much, they're too busy worrying about the red tape and meetings all day. Sometimes it takes 2 days of meetings to make one small code change which gets scrutinized to no end cause no one has actual work so reviewing CR's (PR's) is something they can say at stand up - Some teams genuinely don't do crap, like actual work they clock in and clock out - No one has a larger plan until the last minute, even if there's a large looming engineering deadline coming they won't care until its too late - TOO MANY MANAGERS HERE SHOULD ABSOLUTELY NOT BE MANAGERS, THEY HAVE NO PEOPLES SKILLS AND MANAGEMENT SKILLS - The only way to level up here is to become a Manager so smart engineers become managers, but most of these people can't talk to brick wall or have no idea how to be a good manager. They need classes on developing Engineers rather then punishing them for mistakes they should be correcting. I've seen good hires get bad annual reviews by crappy managers, because they don't know how to manage. - If you tell HR about an issue with a manager or issue they won't do crap. Even if people are leaving in droves from that team and they complain about a manager during the exit interview, that person will just stay on the team and sometimes get promoted. - There's a culture of middle managers who are just trying to justify their jobs, turn them into engineers and give them raises, don't force them to be managers - Pay here sucks, you might get a good entry offer but you will not get a raise no matter how you perform.