Pros
1. Company Culture — People are down to earth, hardworking and humble. They really follow through with the "Can I have a beer with this person?" hiring criteria. There's real camaraderie. 2. Leadership — They're the main factor for #1. After working for selfish and arrogant people in the past, it's night and day. Even when you make mistakes, they don't chew you out or flip out. They're calm, measured, and reasonable and it's brought the best out of me. I've never worked harder and loved doing it. 3. Food and drink selection — In-house kitchen, top notch chef. Coffee, beer on tap and all the healthy snakes you could ask for. 4. Technical Challenges — Lots of interesting problems to be solved. 5. Career Mobility — There's a lot of flexibility on what you get work on. 6. Beautiful Office — It's like a art museum. Joel is a architecture-phile, so the office is just zen. 7. Impact — VSCO has a lot of respect in the art and photography community and it's amazing to meet people for the first time and you tell them you work here and they're blown away and go on about how much they love the company, not just the app. I've always worked a B2Bs before and have never experienced anything like this. 8. Oakland — The city has come a long way from when I was a kid. This would have definitely been a con before I started spending time here.
Cons
1. Process — There's still a lot of process that's being developed. So typical growing pains from a small company to mid-sized. 2. Design Separation — Most of the design team is in New York, so there's a bit left to be desired in terms of communication.