Pros
Compared to other Philippine companies, the compensation is very good. HMO also has high coverage. The people are great and fun to work with, and it's a real pleasure being around them. Most managers are good at defending/protecting you against upper management. In my experience, the company wants to see you succeed and will give you the tools you need to do so. I genuinely really enjoy working at Ortus, and can see myself working here for a few years. To be honest, a lot of these negative reviews are written by fresh grads who don't know how the real world works. Forced to go to the office and the company doesn't care how you get there? Yeah, like every job, ever. Come on.
Cons
I wouldn't call the work very challenging. I also wouldn't say there's much room for fulfilment career-wise. There's also not a lot of opportunities to expand skillsets, so in that sense there is no real growth unless you get promoted to management. A lot of growing pains from growing out of a startup. They care too much about man-hours (process based, not output based) and making sure you fill up every hour of your day with tasks, which is simply not sustainable.