Pros
Interesting product, free lunch/snacks, 401(k)
Cons
I'm going to try my best to leave opinion out of this as much as possible. - There are cameras pointed at almost every workspace. - Verbal and/or written reprimands for being less than 60 seconds late. - They will take the opportunity to read through and scrutinize your Google chats and Slack messages. - No flexible hours. - No work from home opportunities unless it's to push you to get something done on top of your regular 8:30 – 5. - Accused of interviewing elsewhere when requesting to leave 90 minutes early on a Friday for a relative's wedding. - No compensation for overtime. - Refused to compensate a translator even a few dollars to do some quality checking of the translated content of our own site. - Employees eating lunch at their desks is a common sight. - Criticized for leaving at 5:01 and not working through lunch when the CEO made one of his infrequent trips to the office. - Constantly questioned about whether 8 hours worth of work was done in a day or 40 in a week. - Verbal reprimands for getting coffee from the kitchen after the morning meeting instead of before. - A bug was discovered in production one time that had affected some orders. Before the bug could be properly investigated, the CTO had circulated an email to the entire office claiming the bug had been in production for over a month and our API had an issue and gone down. After researching the bug by more thoroughly checking commit logs and database entries, I determined it had been in production for a week, was not caused by an API issue, and the API had never gone down. After replying with my analysis, explanation, and evidence, the CTO demanded I reply back retracting my findings and support his version, presumably because they made him look bad in front of the CEO and all the other employees. - Turnover was well over 100% during my tenure there. - Salary is considerably less than market value. - The CTO referred to designers and app developers as “divas” during a long drought in being able to hire either. I presume it was because the applicants weren't desperate enough to accept management's lowball offers. - Much of the development has begun being outsourced overseas. - Translator relations are mostly an afterthought. - If you're female, expect to also perform reception duties despite whatever your actual job title is. - The CTO and CEO tried to throw a salesperson under the bus with termination for halted productivity during the major east coast DNS outage of October 2016. - I was once told to get back to work while researching something on Stack Exchange. - The CTO once tried telling me “no one's ever here past 5:15”, the day after several employees were there working well past 5:15. - Doing pretty much anything but typing into a code editor (as a developer) is seen as either a waste of time or not real work. - Lower level employees were encouraged to take a couple of company culture surveys which they claimed were anonymous. After writing in the survey that claim was preposterous, I was called in for a meeting with the CEO. Thank you for proving my point. - The culture could be described in one of two ways: All the excitement and stiffness of a dead body with rigor mortis, or non-existent.
