Pros
you can learn a lot of new things some smart and good people cool team buildings twice in a year clean office
Cons
get bounced between projects and technologies like a plug-and-play contractor on shuffle mode if you’re a backend engineer, expect to be thrown into frontend tasks just to see if you’re good enough nobody really cares about code quality - deadlines matter more than tech standards you be coding half-asleep just to meet deadlines and are expected to ship at speed, even if it means writing code that would make your future self cry no transparency about where the company is really going deck meetings feel like brainwash bluff and pulling the wool over people’s eyes management is a total disaster: two-faced, toxic and pretending they know what they’re doing… Spoiler: they don’t founders love to talk about “culture,” “core values,” and “high standards,” but these are just tools to punish people because the real culture is blame first salaries are low HR team is toxic, manipulative and corrupt - politics, favoritism and pressuring people to write weaknesses in coworkers’ perf reviews don’t expect fairness, reviews are a theater for office politics, not an actual reflection of skills or contributions asking for flexibility (when being sick) is treated like a personal favor, not a normal human arrangement management acts like they’re doing you a favor (letting you work from home) - so next time you’re expected to “do extra” to compensate the company promotes itself as a “friendly environment where you can grow,” but the reality is constant exploitation burnout is guaranteed, morale is nonexistent and speaking up gets you labeled