Pros
- The people are fantastic. Intelligent, curious, helpful, kind. They work with cutting edge tech as much as possible and freely share their knowledge to make everyone better. An overall incredibly collaborative culture that was built over the years. (caveat - see cons) - Some of the projects are really interesting and challenging. - There are opportunities for changing roles. - Promotions are (mostly) merit based (see cons) - Tobias finally gave in and supported fully remote workers (aside from occasional onsites once a quarter), despite his massive preference for in-office work. - C-Suites made sure during COVID that there were no layoffs, even taking a pay cut themselves. Felt like they really cared about the people there but... (see cons)
Cons
- Company really changed as they prepared for and after the acquisition. I left before the recent layoffs, but the cracks in the culture from on high were already starting to show then. - Sudden layoffs. We survived COVID without them and c-suite got a lot of goodwill and respect for that. But now with this new acquisition where money should be less of an issue they surprise layoff 10-12% of the company for "restructuring". Corporate talk for making that profit margin even bigger. Any other company it wouldn't surprise me, but that is such a drastic change from when the company was smaller and more at risk. So much for psychological safety, one of the core values. - Remote workers often felt like an afterthought and there was conflicting descriptions of the permanence of it for way too long. - Experience on a project varies wildly based on location and project. Can be great, can be a struggle. WT People were great - but some clients can be... difficult. - Typical push to get people back in office more. Work From Near workers (hybrid) were only required twice a week but they started pushing for more. I expect that in the near future the push will be back to in-office 5 days a week, and wouldn't be surprised if they tried to kill off full remote entirely in the long term. - I noticed a lot more politicking and people who are excellent candidates getting passed for promotions for unspecified or overall garbage reasons. Most promotions outside of moving to execs are merit based - you earn it you bump. But some people exceeded the criteria, had glowing peer and manager feedback and yet would get denied for several cycles with no real actionable feedback and pushing up the chain didn't accomplish as much as it should have, either.
