Pros
-Remote first and so far they're too cheap to try and force people RTO -Culture - real sense of team and working toward a common goal- was at one point the highlight, but that's gone now - The product itself while not the best available works and there's still a market for it
Cons
Burnout factory: They've been on a hiring/promotion freeze since early 2022- teams are spread extremely thin taking on departed and laid off staff's workload. Constantly increased expectations (due to pressure from the Board) that go unmet coupled with bigger workloads is leading to widespread burnout and overall a feeling that no one is succeeding and projects aren't ever finished, just expanded. Pay: They get away with paying lower experience/education people well below market rate. PD also doesn't pay as well in general as other tech, and while the people are smart and talented, sometimes you get what you pay for in terms of experience and turnover rate. High turnover: Seems to be a curse on many of the teams, a new director, manager, or vp comes in changes everything starts implementing new systems and then someone else is brought in 10 months later that has a completely different idea and starts implementing more huge systematic changes. The outcome: wasted time, resources, effort and investment from employees. An example of this is the 5+ different project management platforms that were used/implemented/onboarded/eventually abandoned by just my team that all did basically the same thing but different UIs.