Pros
The company has somehow hired much better people than any of the management deserve to have on their teams. My former coworkers are kind, intelligent, warm people that I hope end up at good companies that value their work, time, preferences, and goals. You’ll get to work from home two days a week. Management will semi-frequently try to make up for their wrongs with booze and food. These instances are a good opportunity to get to know your coworkers on different teams. You might learn how to oversell yourself and your skills by listening to management talk to clients. This can be useful when trying to escape.
Cons
I have stress dreams about working at Cedrus and it’s been a hot minute since I quit. Management claims to value transparency, but if you quit they’ll pretend they fired you at the next team meeting. Management has 0 interest in the technical side of anything that goes on, but they loooove to make technical decisions and cite their expertise. They have no expertise. Many of my former coworkers, including me, have cried at work because of stress or ethics. Regardless of what anyone may tell you, this is not normal. You will be told in your interview that you’ll learn more in one year at cedrus than you would in three to five years anywhere else, and that this is because you’ll be adapting to the dynamic needs of clients. What this really means is that you have a 75% chance of working with Angular 1 or Blue Prism (RPA software--NOT coding) and a 25% chance of being on the bench for more than half a year. There are pretty egregious pay discrepancies between men and women who are doing the same work, and sometimes women are paid less than men with lower positions. Pay at Cedrus is, across the board, lower than market rate. You might be promised additional compensation in your performance review meetings only to have those promises walked back a few days later. You will probably be promised project work that aligns with your skills, interests, and goals, but that project work will never come. Work is very poorly balanced, with some employees working consistently until 10pm and some complaining of boredom. Overworking is not rewarded, just expected. Management will say that your career development is up to you and if you ask for responsibility, you will get it. This is false. If you ask for responsibility you will probably be told that you don't have enough of a certain kind of experience to do the thing you're asking for, but there will be no effort to create a roadmap for you to gain that experience. I don't think the company has values other than make money and try to sound impressive in order to make more money. They would automate a suicide hotline if someone would pay them to do it. The CEO throws weird childish fits about things like copy writing on a website or the way employees mark their status on slack. He does this pretty frequently. You will be talked down to at least once, probably many times, probably by upper management, guaranteed. If you have a problem with any of the above and make it known, management will probably passive-aggressively rant about you in a mandatory company meeting.
