Pros
- Coworkers are great, they're young and eager to learn. Very open minded.
- Good opportunity to learn and grow.
- You will work with a lot of different technologies. (PHP, Wordpress, Angular, AWS).
- They welcome and encourage new ideas.
- Nice office, 5 minutes from Willowbrook Mall and close to a number of bars and restaurants.
- Includes a gym space which is great.
- Office snacks and sodas are a nice touch.
- Friendly environment with positive vibes among the employees.
Cons
- Big brother environment, micromanaged.
- They monitor your internet traffic, possibly read your emails too.
- They have a camera that watches and listens to you.
- Owners commit to far more work than what they can actually deliver which then leads them to ask you to work weekends (in-office).
- One of the dudes is kinda passive aggressive and he thinks nobody notices.
- Pays poorly, they look for Senior Engineers who are willing to accept the pay of a college Jr Dev. (Which is why no Senior Devs ever answer to their job postings)
- I was originally offered 2 work from home days per month, but then management refused to give them to me once I was hired.
- Your lunch time is set by the company to 1pm for one hour, you cannot leave any earlier or arrive any later than 5 minutes after.
- They will make sure that you're back on time by checking up on you. (They do a headcount after lunch).
- Management is not held accountable to certain misconduct.
- Product management is non-existent, you will be pivoting between projects back and forth, more than normal.
- Not a lot of care for good coding practices from management, although the devs do a good job at setting a decent bar.
- Project specs are inconsistent and you will find yourself redoing work from time to time. Mostly due to lack of thorough feature definition/direction.