Pros
Well positioned and a good idea. - You will find a chair and desk easily - Drinking sessions are encouraged by the Senior Management - You will learn all the reasons and see firsthand how not to do all manner of things - You will not only code, but will also learn how to perform testing in disparaging environments, as nothing is the same. - You won't have to document anything, as it only detracts you from trying to figure out where the data you need actually live - You will get to work with several database technologies (see above) - You won't have to consider how to scale or maintain anything - You will not be oncall, nobody is
Cons
- Micro management of staff - Manipulative upper management - CTO has an uncanny ability to contradict himself several times in a ten minute conversation - Only thing getting close to a carrot is the colour of the logo - You will be expected to perform lots of work in extremely short time spans - Unrealistic expectations - You will receive a one line description when being assigned a task which is actually a whole new feature, and receive no response when asking for more details. - One man makes all decisions, even if something was your idea - No roadmap - No release schedule - Sensitive information passed in unencrypted emails - Control created by creating chaos for staff - You will be asked to perform tasks that are completely contradictory and expected to deliver next day - Even if family member passes away, expect to be called upon by CTO, even outside normal business hours - Any apology given to you will be demonstrated to you it really held zero value - WFH policy is a lie, it is not encouraged at all by contract and HR requires signatures from your manager and CEO before you can WFH - If you were told you own something, what was meant was, you're the one to get blame for anything relating to it, but you will not have any say in how to manage or run anything - If you have any ideas that are actually useful, they may get presented as having been someone elses