Pros
When I first started working at Divvy, the company culture was great, the work was exciting, and the company really seemed to care about its employees. It was, at that point, the best job I had experienced in my now 30-year career. Other pros included: 1. Free snacks and meals. 2. $100 per month, on top of your salary, to spend as you wish. 3. $1,000 per year to spend on vacation. 4. Paid technical conferences. 5. Managers who know how to code. In the beginning, the company was such that I wrote it a five-star review here on Glassdoor. I also wrote two positive pieces for Divvy's social media efforts and referred Divvy to several other engineers.
Cons
While many of the pros are still available at Divvy, the company is starting to slip. They recently hired several new managers in engineering. Since this hire, Divvy's culture has gone out of the window in favor of self-promotion, lying, abuse of authority, and manipulation to achieve personal objectives rather than team/company goals. Unfortunately, instead of protecting the values and culture that made Divvy a great place to work, Divvy has decided to protect these new managers and excuse their deceit (and in one case their violation of the law). There were always minor cons to working at Divvy, such as a tendency to value the number of Git merges into the master branch over well-written, bug-free code; however, these quirks were manageable. I believe these new issues, which embrace and nurture each of the dysfunctional behaviors described in the book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, by Patrick Lencioni, mark the beginning of Divvy's decline.