Pros
Product’s fire, and I get to use Haskell. Super remote-friendly—we literally traveled cross-country and didn’t use PTO. "Unlimited" PTO, but it's more like a few weeks. The offices are pretty nice too, not cramped or budget vibes.
Cons
The workload is insane. Every single day is a new emergency, and the second one comes up, we drop everything to handle it. Then leadership comes in like, "Why’d you stop working on your feature?" But we’re just following orders. So we switch back to features, and guess what? Another emergency. It’s this constant ping-ponging, and nothing ever gets fully done. How are we supposed to finish anything when every day is a fire drill? And can we talk about management? They’re completely useless. Instead of asking leadership the right questions or pushing back, they come out of these executive reviews with new orders and just dump them on us. And then at the end of the cycle, the product manager complains that the roadmap changed—like, hello? Weren’t you in the same exec meetings? We weren’t even there! We’re just trying to do what the manager and PM are telling us to do. And leadership? They change direction every single week, like nothing matters. They expect everyone to drop what they’re doing like it’s no big deal. What’s the plan here? What’s the actual priority? Do they even know? It's like they think we have endless time and energy for their whims. And then, when I’ve had PTO scheduled for weeks, they’ll hit me up during an "emergency" like, "Can you just do a little bit while you're off?" Why bother having time off then?