Pros
Building is nice, Colleagues are amazing, though mostly because they understand how horrible it is and don’t want to make matters worse, Quiet because so many have left.
Cons
Management is absolutely clueless and has no idea how to manage a lemonade stand let alone a software company. They change the process every day, sometimes multiple times a day. If you enjoy renaming branches and jiras all day, then this is the place for you! The build servers are constantly overloaded and buggy to the point where it takes hours to build code that takes seconds on a laptop. The code baseline is ancient and you will be working on random bugs for a poorly architectured product even though they sell you on a pipe-dream of amazing code and next-gen tech. You’ll be making changes to the functional equivalent of dreamweaver the code is so bad (and old!). You’ll be blamed constantly for giving large estimates that still aren’t enough because it takes two weeks to hunt down the tiniest bug. This company literally fired their QA and closed the positions. If that doesn’t tell you all you need to know about quality control, nothing will. They expect engineers to do 2-3 weeks of manual testing each month so you only even get to work on bugs and code for a week before the “sprint” is up. Last but not least, upper management will ask for your advice or opinions then turn around and either fire you or punish you when you disagree. If you work here, my advice is to kiss the ring and get a new job as soon as possible. The CTO is especially horrible - he acts like he cares but he can’t take a suggestion.
