Don't be fooled by the hype and best workplace awards, this place is a nightmare
Pros
* Over-the-top benefits (though they come with a price). * Convenient office location in downtown Seattle. * Salaries are reasonable for the job requirements and experience.
Cons
* High rate of employee turnover (20% of the company in a year), with many departing employees giving ridiculous cover stories about leaving to pursue highly unlikely alternate careers. * Lack of respect for employee privacy and confidentiality, including open discussion of individual employee's performance and career paths by management in front of other employees. * Hiring practices plagued with nepotism. * The executives lack the intellectual vigor to run a technology company. * Most of the employees lack critical thinking skills or are all too willing to suppress them to appease the management and continue receiving the benefits, which is hardly desirable for a technology company. * Poor track record of repeatedly delivering products and features after considerable delays. Planning and communication is so lacking at this company that the need to delay for months is inevitably discovered at the last minute. * Company culture consists of endless partying (some weeks, the company provided alcohol to the employees nearly every day), rampant sexual inappropriateness, bullying, hazing, cliquish social circles straight out of your worst high school nightmares, unceasing mindless positivity, and relentless peer pressure and executive bullying to shut down anyone who tries to engage in any form of critical analysis. They even feature a picture of some of their employees in the three mystic apes poses on their web site. * Radically unequal treatment of marketing staff vs. technical staff. Everyone constantly heaps empty praise on the marketing staff for doing much of nothing (a status email from someone in marketing turns into a huge thread where everyone in the company responds trying to outdo each other in effusive gushing about how great an idea it is to send a status email, as if this were something that wasn't happening on a continual basis in the rest of the corporate world). The work of the technical staff largely goes unnoticed and unappreciated, and the technical staff is consistently asked to work ridiculous hours to pull off miracles patching together poorly functioning products and features. * The TAGFEE values are practiced only in the most hypocritical ways, and most of the employees just throw infantile tantrums in which they use the values as a weapon against each other just to get what they want. * The company founder fosters a cult-like atmosphere, with company all-hands meetings taking on a revivalist meeting type of atmosphere. The company keeps a life-size cardboard cutout of the founder in the lobby, which should really tell you all you need to know about the company.
