Pros
tbh, two things- 1. Notice Period. 2. Pay scale.
Cons
- No work life balance because you'll be in office more than 9-10 hours daily. Consider you don't have a personal life apart from work. - Their belief system is that every problem statement should be finished within a week, no matter what. If that doesn't happen, there's going to be deep escalation every time that why you could not do it. Even though it's very obvious that problem was big and required time etc. They just want you to come up with some basic solution and finish it within a week. I have seen old employees agreeing on that they don't need the best solutions. We just want to get things done and then everything breaks on live product and then there's lashing out from founders on why did it happen. It's very funny scenarios at times. Everyone knows it happened because it wasn't thought out properly and tested properly because of lack of time. - You will hear this a lot from stakeholders:"We are a startup, we should not spend so much time on ideation process." - Judgement on your every action, starting from the time you enter the office to the time you leave to everything, that too after spending more than 9-10 hours in office. - You will always see founders or stakeholders asking you questions to frame you in a situation, rather than conveying what's the issue upfront. Intelligence agency sort of scenes. You won't know what's their opinion on your work or on you. - Also at times there will be warnings upfront. No ethics about conveying basic conditions like work from home. I remember HR once advocating about that we are very strict for WFH and coming late, and one of the employee asked whether sometimes personal work like plumbing job or some emergency work which is not in our hands, is making us late, would that be fine? And her response was,"If you are being late for such mundane reasons then you should not be in this company." - Extreme workaholic environment. Setting standards from CEO to Team Leads to Managers to HR's(Idk what they have to work for so long in office). - Boxed mindsets towards running company with diversified employee mindsets. It's easy to mould freshers with this mindset but people coming from different domains would see it through and would reject this. - Unhealthy and forced competitive environment. Interview Process: You will be promised a lot about ideas you would be able to do coz we are so open about new ideas and new tech but then this all won't even get discussed once you are on board.