Pros
- Employees are paid on time - Perks and benefits are fairly good - Filled with passionate, motivated individuals who are generally personable and contribute to a pleasant work environment - For big data and marketing, a real opportunity to work with a goldmine of data - Connections made here can be invaluable to future career prospects - Industry still has room to grow, even for smaller players
Cons
Company: - More interested in maintaining public image than acknowledging and handling actual issues - Leadership is a self-reinforcing bubble that pushes its own preconceptions of productivity rather than taking in employee feedback - Ex. to above: new office workplace, while upscale and "representative of the company's bright future" is a significant challenge to employees commuting from outside of the city - Ex. to above: an inflexibly strong stance against remote work, citing the importance of "physical visibility" - Suggestions encouraging employees to write positive reviews "to offset the bad ones on Glassdoor" highlight the company's approach to public image efforts - These issues (and the associated turnover rate) appear to hover around the SF office - other offices have many 3+ year employees, but the SF office has very few Engineering: - Openings in management are invariably external hires rather than internal promotion which recognizes the value of individuals' knowledge base and mastery of the company product - Management hires tend to be connections to existing management, reinforcing a top-down "yes man" engineering org that creates its own bubble impervious to employee feedback - Usually, the above results in teams "onboarding their manager", accentuating resentment - Projects and tasks are prioritized somewhat indiscriminately, due to a lack of sources of actual product knowledge (employees with real product knowledge have long since left due to problems with the aforementioned management) - Morale is low across the board due to a combination of the above - even as new hires come in each week, company veterans seek greener pastures
