Pros
- Great people to work with - I have lots of friends - Team member discount is nice - Promote from within - Stable - Flexible - Work life balance - Work from home option for developers
Cons
-Pay is low for many - Upper management clearly doesn’t understand or properly value IT, and makes many head scratching decisions - Upper management is completely stuck in their old fashioned ways - Leadership made promises of an improved workspace for several years before sticking us in a building that is in every way worse, without any explanation (some teams got stuck in a windowless basement) - Bad benefits - Insurance isn’t great, no paid maternity or paternity leave, outdated vacation policy. - They’ve been trying (kind of) to figure out IT for years and failing miserably - Extremely cheap (they call it “expense control”)- you’ll share hotel rooms, they won’t buy decent coffee, have outdated cubicles and equipment, etc. - If you want to learn to have technical excellence and be on a team that excels, steer clear. At O’Reilly you’ll spend your time fixing problems that shouldn’t be there in the first place, making hacky code, and be in a constant state of trying to figure out what our development process is.