Pros
There are only a couple of situations you may want to do it: - You are very young and junior and desperate to put a nice logo on your CV - You are senior and the package they offer you is quite good Still if you are ready for any of the above continue to read as you are about to pay quite a price for that… Some Pros: - Nice and smart colleagues, really causal international environment - Location of the office
Cons
The offer may seems quite good – all these bonuses and stock options look attractive. Look again and you will see that in every year you will spend with them, there is something monetary compensating you… Why is that… Yes, I know they told you that you are smart and you think that you finally got the opportunity that you deserved…. Think… Think again… Remember if there is a free lunch… Aaah, maybe you got it, still for the rest let me put it in simple words – the compensation is built like this to tie people with golden chains and make them stay (quitting early means repaying the relocation, quitting late means say goodbye to the nice stock compensations) Why that is offered not only to the executives but to all jobs in the hierarchy (not many if any other companies are doing it, maybe there is a reason for that) … I leave to you to think… or worse - figure out Cons: - Total disrespect of the individual, nobody will be root with you, but if you expect thank you for your late night work to meet the deadlines (sometimes triggered by late evening time sms)…. Well, not really…. - Company culture is totally – “I need to succeed at any cost, no matter what”, so in order to survive people turn into monsters (polite ones though) that disrespect the others and their time, you need to deliver no matter what. - Project management, documentation, change management, consistency across the big corporation, this will come in maybe 20 years… - Lack of any processes, everything is built from scratch (I know it is advertised as a cool thing, but is it….) Don’t buy the cheap (approach-wise not monetary-wise) self-marketing campaigns of the company’s senior profiles on LinkedIn – do you know the story ‘The Emperor's New Clothes’ by Andresen… well read it… It is not really funny to see this mass campaign – the company to be advertised as start-up style, fun and creative, but in reality being people put under huge stress due to chaos and lack of elementary resources to do their job.
