Pros
- The people are genuinely great and really care what they're working on. - Your work helps non-profits, which feels incredible. - The benefits are pretty nice - The vacation is awesome
Cons
- The pay is not competitive at all - The company acts like working for them is the best thing you could ever do and subsequently don't work at all to keep you there - Software managers are promoted because they're good at developing, not because they're good at managing. Many of the managers are terrible managers. Good managers always leave for another company. - Developers use an internal spec system designed for non-technical customers instead of actually coding in some places. This kills development skills and makes it super hard to work elsewhere if you stay too long - It is re-org central. I know of plenty of people who have had 5+ managers in only a few years. I never had a manager do more than one review. - Promotion seems more based on favoritism than actual skill. - Managers are weirdly resistant to promotion (or even talks of promotion), even with positions that are not considered career level. - Managers claim to want to help you progress but also value "on the job training," which mostly translates to no help at all. - There is a sketchy lack of women managers in engineering and very few women developers. Most I've talked to did not feel welcomed and either changed positions or left the company. - Remote employees might as well not exist for all the attention they're given.
