Pros
- Diverse group of brilliant and engaged minds to work with - Spend time working on interesting problems - Open source commitment is in the fabric of the company - Blameless culture (really) - They do not care where you went to school or really if you even went to school - Great work life balance - Great benefits including mental health specifically - One thing that some might think of as a “con” I actually enjoy: you need to be self organized. There are mentors and you make buddies, and of course you have a lead, but the expectation is that you will own your “own development” to a great extent and act like a smart mature adult. I actually thrive on being self organized and efficient, so it’s a great environment for me (at the same time it is a very safe pace to make mistakes and grow!) - Toni’s a great leader. The senior leadership team is also great, like COO Toby. They are all strangely human and down to earth and smart.
Cons
Kinda one weird thing about the benefits to me is that there isn’t any flex spending for dependents. Last job allowed 5k a year. My kids are now out of daycare so I haven’t cared too much (and maybe there is some other benefit I don’t know about because I haven’t looked hard) Onboarding was hard. My lead told me that it’d be overwhelming and yeah it was. Everyone was patient and supportive but it was still tough. But now feeling like that’s behind me and I’m feeling very comfortable now (takes 4-6 months or so I think)