Pros
At some point I was deciding whether to stay. The role was intense, the pace is steep, and I wasn't sure I had it in me. What made me stay wasn't a perk or a conversation with HR. It was that every time I got stuck, someone showed up. People here answer Slack DMs genuinely, not hours later with a canned response. Colleagues I'd barely met jumped on a 20-minute call because I reached out. I'd been at places where asking for help felt like an imposition on someone's real work. Here it just doesn't. You stop noticing it until you're somewhere it doesn't happen, and then you miss it immediately. The intensity hasn't gone away. But the feeling of being alone with a hard problem has.
Cons
Work intensity remains steep, requiring strong stamina and adaptability.