Great Compensation, Organizational Disaster
Pros
* Generous compensation, especially given the meteoric rise in stock value * Generous parental leave (For US-based employees, 22 weeks PTO for birthing parents + 4 weeks to east back into work) * Remote-friendly
Cons
*Organizational nightmare (at least my team and those couple I interact with directly) compared with the four tech companies at which I have worked previously. Caveat: I joined via acquisition, so my experience may not be representative, as my group a few dozen engineers was grafted onto an existing team. That said, it is clear that the existing team was pretty dysfunctional before we joined. Priorities are constantly in flux, and changes are not well communicated to the entire team. Requirements for projects often change as well, and sometimes aren't even written down. Relevant information about plans is split between JIRA, an internal bug-tracking tool, and various google docs and sheets to which not everybody has access. I often find my work blocked on multiple fronts for weeks at a time -- I've been here for four months, and I have to actively search for things I can do right now even though I know my team as a whole is not on track to meet our deadlines. The software product I work on is a mess and was cobbled together piecemeal without any thought for the user. I assume the hardware division is much better, because I don't understand how this company is so successful otherwise. *Bare-bones spending on things that could actually impact productivity. Example: we appear to have only the mid-level subscription to our source control software, which means that we cannot search for code across multiple repos at once.
