Pros
A handful of kind/reasonable/helpful coworkers at tynker. Although it seems like another one leaves every month or so. The snacks are alright.
Cons
1. CEO. He is a master of gaslighting and manipulation with a truly terrifying temper. He constantly questions employees' loyalty to him and to tynker. He expects employees to work long hours and be upbeat, even though he comes in late and leaves early and never smiles or greets people. And because tynker is a very small company, he is able to pollute the whole office with his nastiness. 2. People at tynker are unhappy. People at tynker want to leave tynker. Even though some of your coworkers are cool, it's just not an okay environment. The best ones are probably on their way out. 3. The $$$. They offer you a lot of stock instead of a decent salary. Someone in tech gave me good advice: always assume that your stock is worth zero. Because in 95% of start-ups, it is. And every company thinks they're the exception. 4. Advancement opportunities. As a game developer, your skills will stagnate. You are mostly coding in Tynker's Scratch-like environment, not in a real language. That is not an employable or transferrable skill. 5. The product (tynker courses) is not good, and management is disinterested in improving it in meaningful ways. It's demoralizing to work on projects where the goal is just to get it done as quickly as possible and have it look good, without much concern for the actual user. I just want to add: I wish I'd known before joining tynker what this environment would be like. It really is miserable and toxic beyond what I could have imagined. My mental health (and the mental health of other employees) has suffered significantly here.