Pros
1) Salary + bonus + equity compensation were top of the market. There are other places that don't give any equity compensation to Tax/Accounting professionals, so this was a huge plus. Also the company only just went public in 2021, so the equity isn't as much of a crapshoot/lottery ticket as a startup. 2) Great perks. $300 per month, ostensibly stipends for health and wellness and internet/phone (don't need to provide receipts). $1,000 one-time work from home stipend (don't need to provide receipts). Health/vision/dental insurance up to 90% covered by the company. 401k matching that vests immediately. 3) 100% remote work
Cons
1) The worst management. Management expects people to have no work/life balance during quarter close. "Quarter close" is defined by management as 5 weeks long and closer to 8 weeks for year-end close. So about half of the year. Management expects you to work long hours (10+ hours a day) and/or be glued to your computer and respond immediately to any issues that pop up. And by respond immediately, they mean within 15 minutes of an email being sent. If you want a half hour or hour for lunch, management expects that you block off lunch time on your calendar or otherwise they will consider it fair game to ask you to do something urgently. Management will defend themselves by saying "this is the way it is" and that they were "very transparent" about this during the interview process. 2) A pervasive fire drill culture in the overall Finance group. It's one thing if someone is out sick or if something truly unpredictable happens. But the Finance group struggles to meet deadlines that are known far in advance. There is a lack of organization, established processes, and communication between departments. This leads people to realize on a given day "oh crap, X is due today!" which sets off a chain reaction as people the need to be glued to their computers as messages are exchanged back and forth until issues are ultimately resolved. 3) Unrealistic and undefined expectations for the work product in general. Management will have a vague/broad sense of what work needs to get done, but will not provide any specifics and expects people to "figure it out". This leads to an unnecessarily iterative process. Management considers themselves "too busy" to really think about what needs to get done and actually plan/organize, so they think they're being "efficient" by telling someone to start working on something even though they're provided incomplete instructions. 4) A ton of corporate BS (that honestly is probably to be expected from a company of this size). One of the company's core values is "love". At a Finance offsite, the CFO gave out t-shirts and hats that said "The Finance Team Gets **** Done" (with the 4 letter word actually spelled out). 5) The company got rid of "recharge days" (basically extra vacation days). There had been at least 1 per month, and they always landed on days that made a long weekend. At the Company All Hands meeting, they announced that these recharge days had been cancelled. The CEO seemed to imply that these were never meant to be permanent, but the company never communicated the expectations clearly.