Pros
- Company is growing quickly in an exciting space - building a lot of new features and winning exciting new clients. Symphony had some challenges last year, mentioned in other reviews, but I think those are behind it now and they have a clear and achievable strategy.
- People are really nice - very humble and friendly, always ready to help others out.
- Lots of interesting career paths within the company, particularly in terms of trying different teams. All the platform pieces are interconnected so movement is encouraged.
- As some other reviews note: most team leaders take quite a 'hands-off' attitude, so you get a lot of freedom but perhaps not always as much coaching as you might want. That suits some types, not others. You can be very entrepreneurial and if you see a new opportunity management will often encourage you to work on it
Cons
- There are a handful of senior people who know everything about the platform and can get stuff done, and a lot of junior and/or newer people who are less effective. This creates a huge load on those senior people who become bottlenecks
- There is still some technical debt to be repaid from previous years of rapid feature growth
- Documentation and processes were not well developed when I arrived, but have got a lot better in 2016