Good benefits but has a few issues
Pros
Personally I am very happy with the benefits at Vonage. Base pay is good, good bonuses, company is still a remote first company for the majority of people. Flexibility is excellent. Team and management are great, Work itself can be interesting, Holiday allowance is very generous. I have always felt at Vonage I am a person and not another number.
Cons
For numerous reasons work can be very slow, releases can take days, and Jiras span sprint after sprint. Work is also often not enjoyable as it can be so varied you feel lost. As a developer I find work also often feels more like an IT role than a development one. Especially when it comes to incidents. Feels like a lot of issues come up and there is a lot of context switching. Red tape processes are getting worse, more meta work is constantly added. Bonuses are good but have reduced by a lot. Too many technologies mean you learn slowly and never feel you gain a strong level of mastery. So many areas mean simple tasks take a long time to understand. We are asked to select goals to work on - most of which are irrelevant on an individual level. They also feel much too large to do on top of your regular work. This lowers morale as it feels we are setting out to fail. On call work is a nightmare - almost always you will receive a call and it will probably be something you know little to nothing about. While I overall like my job - sometimes it's hard to look forward to a better future. I see very little career development and growth.
