Pros
- Working from home. - 5 days of volunteering leave per annum.
Cons
- The company is growing by acquiring other businesses rather than by investing in current products/talent or by organic growth. - Little to none career progression. - Most products use very old technology and are not interesting for software developers to be working on at this time and age. - As a way to cut costs, a good portion of the technical team is outsourced. Many outsourced devs don't know the technology well enough to make things work and innovation, when available, takes a long time. - Creative and competent engineers are being replaced in favour of cheap outsourced teams (numbers vs quality). However, it turns out that those creative people are not replaceable and the products are sucked into technical debit black holes with no many people understanding how things work. - Agile/Scrum/Tech process managers are shallow in technical aptitude and meetings about things such as Agile methodology or people & resources management were condescending. - Beware of the bonus scheme, as it the company performance out-weights your individual performance. So even if you do your absolute best, your bonus might be chopped off big time if the company sets unrealistic goals or if for whatever reason other teams failed to deliver.