Pros
- Good for new starters in IT like Grads and Interns - Most of colleagues are nice but some can be extremely political and sabotage others to move forward - Free Fruits, Drinks and Nuts - First few months are pretty exciting learning new tech, but gets boring after a while - Heaven for newbies, if they can be good with managers and do hardwork, they can progress in their career pretty quick, sometimes even surpassing salary of seasoned IT professionals. The keyword is the employee have to be their manager's favorite.
Cons
- Not industry standard remuneration, below average remuneration - Stock is heavily used to compensate the base salary, which in many cases just gets lost if you leave the company in first 2 years. Most of the stock are vested between year 2 and 4. - High pressure work environment and highly political work environment - Micro management to the max - Lots of new managers only focused in progressing their own career and sacrificing the lower level staffs for their own gains. - Metrics, metrics, metrics and more metrics, if metrics are not met, good bye in annual review period. - If you are not in good books with your manager, your career is over. Manager will stop you from progressing anywhere despite your genuine talent. - Hiring manager always listens to the employee's current manager. Manager's mafia style ruling is highly evident. - Hellish place for Seasoned IT pros as they will be treated as school kids similar to new graduates who all work on the same floor. Do the same job and also get almost same pay. - Extreme focus on KPIs and metrics that are beyond engineer's control (like Customer ratings) - Short visioned managers sabotaging engineer's life and career. - Extreme favoritism, the same engineers who is close to manager and manager's favorite gets opportunities everywhere, flying across the globe and doing whatever they want to do. Hence misuse of corporate funds.