Pros
Almost everything people post on here that I've read is generally true. The people you will work with are great, some of the hardest working and friendliest people I have met period. If you are even the tiniest bit social you will make friends easily here. You can get hired on with minimal experience and build your resume extremely well For anyone applying here you have to understand that this is the thing that leads to the other thing, not the end game. Spreetail also does encourage community action and bettering, and whatever the actual goal of that is the point remains there are people living in terrible conditions that have been made better because of this company. That is commendable Pay is decent for software but below competitive in other areas of the company.
Cons
Senior leadership is severely lacking. Anyone who claims to have a full picture is probably lying or making assumptions but the main points are that no one at the top has any idea what they are doing. Priorities can change day to day, sometimes with no effect to the department sometimes with gigantic impact. There does not seem to even be a goal anymore since the layoffs, not that there really was one to begin with other than "make more money." On the subject of layoffs, telling 124 people they are fired with less than a days notice and in the next breath telling news outlets we are still hiring is not okay. I don't know what the strategy was here but no one at this company views their job as completely safe and there is a high chance people in certain departments are now going to be looking out for themselves at the expense of others. Absolutely no one at the top was held accountable. Even if you accept that this was the correct course of action, firing the people who are part of the problem without removing a single person behind the creation of that time is pointless. It won't do a thing to stop it from happening again. At least 2/3 of the people who come in with significant experience are touted by the company as a "huge get" but leave within the year after Bret micromanages them to death. "Spreetail is not for everyone." Bret seemed to say this in some moment of clarity and must have loved how it sounded because he said it several more times after that as well. When your answer for any legitimate question about work/life balance or turnover boils down to "if you don't like it here you can leave" you can get an idea for the kind of "feedback" he is willing to listen to.