Pros
PTO and remote first policy
Cons
- Laid off a third of the company and tripled the workload for engineers (not hyperbole, my manager's words), then cancelled all 1-1s and Officevibe. I didn't speak to my manager directly for about a year after this.
- The tech stack is incredibly tedious and difficult to work with. Huge, monolithic, undocumented, untyped code base where testing a single change can take anywhere from 5 minutes to 2-3 hours.
- Highly proprietary stack with few transferable skills.
- The position is very pigeon-holed, doing a small scope of similar type work over and over. You will not design or build new features, only fix bugs. The problems are not interesting.
- No meetings or any real reason to talk to anyone at all. Its just you and whatever tickets you've been assigned.
- Super tight, overlapping deadlines and manufactured urgency, resulting in many weeks far exceeding 40 hours.
- The person who assigns tickets is / was not a software engineer and does not understand scope of work.
- CEO is cringe, worships AI, Musk and Bezos. Says strange things in Slack and email.