Pros
Good and communicative office location, equipment and additional vacation days.
Cons
Even before starting, I experienced questionable behavior from people managers. When I asked for just one week to consider the offer, the response was: "Make up your mind - there are many others in line." (attitude showing a lack of respect for candidates and sets a clear tone of how people are treated even before joining). Additionally very strong hire-and-fire mentality. The company is severely unorganized, with pseudo-processes that create more confusion than clarity. Reasoned as "dynamic startup" - very funny. Cross-team collaboration is virtually nonexistent, making it difficult to deliver meaningful outcomes. The onboarding process is a mess: 100+ checkboxes spread across 4–5 outdated documents. Employees must manually request access to systems (some of which haven't been used in years), while newer essential tools are not even mentioned. Assigned "onboarding buddies" are unavailable in 60% of the time, leaving new hires unsupported during a critical time - mine was a good and quality guy but the very poor management make his value near zero. Employee Net Promoter Score (NPS) hovers around 1-2 out of 5 in my team, yet this is never acknowledged or correctly addressed during Scrum meetings or retrospectives while. Monthly 1:1s with engineering leadership felt performative. Constructive feedback about the need for team collaboration and onboarding improvements was either ignored or misrepresented in written feedback as "XXXXX not helping," later used as a basis for complaints. For 5 months I've observed that 10+ persons leaved by their choice due to inadequate management only in engineering teams. Fancy titles, creative team names, and polished outward appearance, but very little actual professionalism, collaboration, or respect internally. What looks shiny on the outside masks a toxic culture and lack of real leadership. All this in some teams - maybe there is good teams too, but in general - very bad experience. You decide - a healthy culture and genuine development, or pretense and backstabbing. If you're curious, take a few minutes to look at the LinkedIn profiles of some of the company's "principals" and "directors". Analyze their actual experience, the scale and impact of the products they’ve been involved in, and compare that with the titles and descriptions they claim. What you’ll find is a pattern of inflated roles attached to minor or failed projects, dressed up to look like major achievements. It's a reflection of the broader culture - style over substance, ego over teamwork and value.
