Pros
Opportunity to work on a large scale project Good place to learn some skills, but not the highest level of skills
Cons
Ah where to start... You will be overworked and underpayed. You will hear fancy stories of a "positive environment where you can grow, with flexible hours and appreciation of your work", in reality you will be in a place where your screen activity will be recorded, your logged time very strictly monitored and you will experience passive agression from the owner more often then not. Owner's behavior will often feel like emotionally unstable. You will be given all the freedom in the world to write your code, that is what they will tell you, but what will actually be expected from you is just to have weeks of work done within a day or two and have your feature working. Regular raise is promissed, but you will have to ask and often fight for it in a very bad way. They will pretend to have forgoten about your raise, and will try not to give it to you. Salary is very poor for the industry standards. Even if you are a junior dev you will be "thrown into the fire". In normal companies that usually means that you would be given work to do while being guided by a very experienced dev. On the other hand, in most of the cases here, that phrase means "go and do 3 weeks of things in a day any way you know". If you are not in the same timezone you will be expected to stay up late to show up for useless meetings which apparently only served the owner to make sure he controlls everything. If you come from a country that has a couple of more days off than USA, your only chance to actually use those will be to have a very serious contract with them, otherwise you can forget about your personal life. Even if you have a contract, they will give you your days off but will make sure to mention it a 100 of times and you will hear the owner saying how USA employees get 1 or 2 weeks of vacation and making sure he is passive agressive towards you. They used to have bonuses for xx ammount of logged ticket hours, but they used to come up with every possible nonsence reason to actually not give it to you, up untill the point where they just decided not to do that any more. Speaking of tickets and hours, your every move is being recorded via Hubstaff and you will hear from the owner if you are not activelly coding at least 7-7.5 hours per day on average. If you need to think about the problem in hand do it in your free time. That is if you are not an absolute senior who doesnt have to think too much, but you will be heavily underpayed. If you are not a crazy senior then you will be able to grow but only up to a certain point, because the owner doesnt really care about code quality, he just wants to see tickets being burned as fast as possible int he shortest period of time possible. Mantaining a good codebase is only up to the devs good will, who have to sacrifice their own free time if they want to put some attention to improvement, owner doesnt care, he just wants features and more features. If you think that spending several years there might get you a better status, you will again be wrong. As soon as you dont work 15 hours in 8 hours day you will experience passive agression. This company seems to be good only for beginners looking to make their way into coding or people who are willing to be underpayed and work day/night, be on call and don't mind being yelled at occasionally. Oh and yes, they will be willing to constantly bring in more new people and let go of cureent team memebers, they are apparently in a years long search for the perfect team, which they cant find as they keep hiring uncompetent people that are willing to work tooooo much for a very little money, and of course that leads to nothing. Those good that were there long are slowely leaving the team 1 by 1...