Pros
First the people. I really enjoy working with all my colleagues. Everyone is naturally curious and happy to teach each other. There's a healthy professional and positive culture which makes coming into work fun. Second the opportunities for personal growth. Deliveroo's business and engineering teams are growing quickly, leading to new technical and product challenges constantly. Third the ability to have a large impact. Small teams look after huge parts of our systems which reach millions of customers. There are few companies at this unique time period where they have both lots of users and small teams to own entire sections of the product while scaling very quickly.
Cons
Like any startup, there are growing pains. Specifically for tech, the main two I see: 1. Management is stretched thin. The tech organization has grown quickly without enough management support. It's being actively fixed now with several new EMs joining recently. 2. Rapidly changing product roadmap. Often we can be quite reactive to external forces with our product roadmap which can cause some vertigo for teams. We've recently started having a company-wide product roadmap which hopefully will help.