Pros
- Weekly lunches - Bagel/donut Fridays - Central SF location; close to transit - Cool brand recognition; looks great on a resume - Good work-life balance - High visibility of product - People are passionate about building great products - Healthy relationship with product and engineering - Efforts to create a fun culture: game launches and swag, karaoke, version release parties, Christmas parties, hackathons, happy hours
Cons
- Senior management is a mess - out of touch with employees and current technology, false transparency, lack of objectivity across all team members, inability to establish baseline of trust with all team members, does not inspire confidence, all buzzwords and no real communication - Below-market compensation - Constant political struggle and general low morale - Projects are routinely killed - It’s a well-known fact in the Bay Area that contractors are treated like second-class citizens and are at best strung along for years - Process and progress occur at a glacial pace - Constant conflict with Tokyo office - their word is law and they are beyond feedback - Sterile cube farm - Low diversity - No employee development/lack of mentorship - Feature bloat - Verticals are completely siloed - Huge gaps of time in between projects - No one gets fired but they are managed out (demoted, compensation is cut)