Pros
Management is genuinely strong — there are well-defined competency frameworks for every role, clear promotion criteria, and a comp & benefits team that actually cares. The total package is competitive: solid market salary, annual indexation, a generous social package, and an almost absurd number of perks (Apple peripherals are treated as consumables, which says a lot). You can work fully remote from anywhere in the world, year-round, and the company issues the latest hardware without making you jump through hoops. The people are sharp, initiative-driven, and care about doing things right without blowing up the business in the process. There’s a real culture of ownership at every level. Weekly All-Hands, a genuine push for work-life balance, and a leadership team that at least tries to be transparent. The company recently started letting designers vibe-code to production and is actively building infrastructure to support it — a sign of how seriously they take modern workflows. LLM subscriptions are reimbursed, learning budgets are generous, and there’s real attention paid to employees’ mental health — courses, internal activities, team-level and company-wide events alike. Quarterly team meetups are fully covered (flights, accommodation, activity budget), and the company throws proper large-scale offsites. Avito also has an active charity program and genuinely tries to make a positive impact beyond just the product.
Cons
The strategic direction feels murky. Avito’s original edge — free listings and the ability to find literally anything — is being steadily eroded by an aggressive Freemium push. Free posting remains, but at every single step you’re nudged (repeatedly) to pay for boosting, highlighting, additional views, and so on. It reaches the point of absurdity: after five contacts on a listing, you’re essentially penalized in ranking unless you pay up. It’s starting to feel extractive rather than user-first. In general, recent strategy reads more like squeezing existing assets for maximum revenue than building genuinely new products or features. That’s a defensible short-term call, but it’s not a direction I find particularly exciting.