Pros
- Telecommuting option once you have proven your worth as an employee (if you're watching Netflix on your shift, they won't trust you to work from home, for sure!) - Your boss or direct superior generally is competent also at what you're doing on the technical end so you don't feel like you're pitching your ideas to dinosaurs. - You can wear many hats in the job or advocate projects with your direct boss' support (e.g. gain some technical chops while working on marketing copy). Some people don't like this in a startup but I list it as a pro in the sense that you actually develop your skills if you are outspoken enough to claim tasks and take ownership even if you are not strictly from one department or another. You just have to be more outspoken otherwise if you cannot have that soft skill, you'll lose in any job. - Really intelligent co-workers and good at what they do. You can't just stay in a slow pace, you have to keep up with most of them because they're a bunch of achievers. You can die of insecurity or you can learn how to swim from the deep end and fast. - Relatively speaking, fairly decent salary package for qualified applicants -They don't spoonfeed you with things you need on the job. Again, some other reviewers view this as a huge Con because they seek jobs for mentoring. But if you are a midlevel worker who can hack through concepts and is not insecure of the hours you need to put in to overcome the learning curve, it's really not that bad. - Some semblance of stability with the heavyweight roster of world clients they have
Cons
I must say one thing first: There is no perfect job and there are no perfect employees. Take all these reviews with a grain of salt because your experience of the company may be completely different from the extremely disgruntled or the incredibly happy ones who posted their thoughts. From my experience, I stand somewhere in the middle, slightly leaning towards a positive experience. Having said that, here are the cons I observed: -I only had one frustration regarding the instability of tool access or tendencies of miscommunication, especially when working remotely. You can gain permission one day and you can lose it in a week or two without notice. It can be disheartening to work on something so hard on Github only to have your access suddenly revoked without any explanation. I also understand that it may be a security protocol from the company and trust that the person who revoked the access is acting in the best interest of the company but it can demotivate people especially if it just happened suddenly without any reason provided. If you did not even bother to let the person know that you are axing his or her work even if it's just a bunch of files on a repository, then you subconsciously communicate that they're worthless or their outputs are worthless even if they are giving 100% of themselves on the job. - It's lonely working from home sometimes if you are in a telecommuting setup and it is really more prone to miscommunications such as the one I expounded on above. :)