Pros
The salary is in the top 20% of the market in Hungary. Relatively new technologies: cloud, github, k8s, kafka. Possibility to learn how to interview people for design/coding/leadership. As a backend dev you got to deal with Java mostly, no frontend or scripting.
Cons
From September 2024 it will be required for ALL staff on ALL sites to spend 3 days per week in the office. (now 2 days but not enforced) Loud openoffice, unable to focus even when the office is 20% full. Very slow decision making on the upper levels. The architect (principals and head ofs) don't provide the vision, nor follow or lead the implementation, so teams usually work against each other. There is Apple mac, no windows machines for the devs, no freedom of choice here. All my managers said that they don't like micromanagement AND then they micromanaged me in some sort. Due to a lot of emphasis put on personal achievements, there is no teamwork, but a lots of SILOs, even within the teams. When something is broken there is no teamwork to fix it. Thus a lot of processes work slowly because there is no team commitment to own and improve the processes. There is a possibility to switch to higher positions, however they are all filled in practice and a rare vacancy is filled from external.