Pros
They didn't cheap out on salary, which I am grateful for. In a bad economy I would have expected much worse.
Cons
I don't like saying anything bad; however, this place really deserves it: 1. The CTO is incompetent. He believes that Java is the be all end all of languages, which is ludicrous. I don't want to give too much detail here but I heard him speak of its benefits, which were actually detriments - garbage collection to be exact. Let's just say that he shouldn't be a CTO with such a closed mind and lack of knowledge. 2. There are a group of developers that have been there for a long time, about a decade and a half. They seem okay at first but one guy in particular tried setting me up on three different occasions. Seriously, I felt like I was in grade school. Luckily for me I had copies of all correspondence. 3. They like to throw people under the bus, so to speak. All of the problems on a particular project would be blamed on one person, who is then promptly fired. This speaks to the character of the longer term employees. I have personally witnessed several people being fired for bogus reasons that were definitely worthy of a lawsuit. 4. The prominently display a plaque stating "Top 25 best companies in BC to work for." Unbelievable. The location itself should remove the company from that list, let alone the garbage that goes on in there.