Pros
- Great office conversations, sometimes funny, often hilarious - Dress down attire except when visiting clients - Snack cupboard and beer fridge - Lot's of company events and nights out - Hackathon evenings with pizza & beer - Staff parties at nice venues around Sydney - Nice working atmosphere and supportive colleagues - Paid monthly lunches in the office, a nice recent addition, well done! - Great pay and benefits, plus some end of year bonus if the company does well - Global opportunities to move and be sponsored - Training and mentoring but you have to ask which can be a pain
Cons
- We build enterprise software sometimes over multiple years, this might not be for everyone - There are the occasional late night but everyone has pride in their work so no big deal - Sometimes things happen at the mercy of our clients but this sometimes happens in consulting - Could do more talks in the community but getting sign off is tricky due to strict NDA's - Can't always use cutting edge languages and frameworks, they need to be stable / supported - We're still bound by investment banking level contract obligations, can sometimes get corporate