Pros
- The company has genuinely great people (with few exceptions) outside management (with few exceptions), making daily collaboration enjoyable. - There’s a budget for learning and development, though it’s up to you to take the initiative. Opportunities for self-improvement are plentiful if you’re proactive. - The product itself is exceptional, with a strong vision behind it. - Remote work is more limited than it seems - it only truly applies if you ignore the “two days a week in the office” policy or work from outside the country. But if you can live with the limitation (or be brave enough to ignore the policy), it can be considered Pro. - The unlimited vacation benefit is real, but only if your manager approves it - so it’s more of a potential benefit than a guaranteed one. However, I had never had a problem having a few extra days.
Cons
- Those who thrive here are typically those who are sufficiently servile and who have their own opinion in line with the opinion of the management. If you can tirelessly repeat empty company values with the stubbornness of a supporter of the North Korean regime, you’ll fit right in. No matter how average or below-average you are. - Be ready to keep a poker face when the CEO publicly criticises everyone (and calls everyone a fat lazy cat) for inefficiency and waste, and forget that the management’s offsite trips produce no real product or business strategy - only yet another rehash of company values and how to force them into the heads of the plebs. - Leadership, with few exceptions, avoids addressing real problems; much like Catch-22’s Major Major, they’d prefer not to be disturbed nor to solve anything. - Don't be fooled by the videos from the jobs portal - they were created back when Kentico was fine.