Pros
It's a quite good atmosphere between *engineers*. There is a sense of community here where you feel motived to share your ideas, and you are likely to get constructive feedback from your peers. The direct manager is someone you can count on and I have also heard this from people working on different teams. From my experience, competition doesn't exist among devs – no one is trying to outsmart you, compared to what we might find out there.
Cons
The quality of your work is measured by metrics like "commits per day", "time to merge", "story points committed vs delivered" and so on. At first, they said that having those metrics was just to get a sense that we are on "the right track" in terms of planning and commitment. Nowadays, these metrics are linked to your compensation and, from time to time, they'll inspect and verify your numbers, which you have to manually insert into the software they use, on a weekly basis. The Product team is heavily focused on story point estimates, to the point you feel you're being micro-managed – not by your manager, but by the Product team themselves. There's a lack of trust between Product and Engineers, but it might be mutual now as all the features we've been working on during the last several months seem to generate no meaningful impact on users. Maybe that's the reason we have such a good atmosphere between engineers – we're all trying to survive.
