Pros
Pros: * Mostly intelligent and competent people * Good role for new graduate * Some big client names to work on * Good for learning about browser/web
Cons
Cons: * Company focus on Product and Strategic Consultancy, CSE role is the price to pay for clients to use the Product * Professional Services and Customer Success are like Danny DeVito (PS) and Arnold Schwarzenegger (CS) in Twins * For every 1 CSE promotion there are 5-10 Account Manager/Strategist promotions * The role is marketed as an opportunity for progression into the Product Engineering team, one person did this in 1.5 years * No Mentoring, budget for conferences, time allotted to work on product * Different teams/departments have little communication and no transparency into things like product roadmap * Spending cuts visible in kitchen, events * Process to get into product engineering includes excelling as CSE, passing a competency assessment, contributing majorly to product codebase (no available time or training during working hours) only to interview against external candidates * Not much exposure to modern tech stack (no external libraries/server side Node) within role