Pros
- Big mature company with defined workflows - Tech stack is mostly modern, especially infrastructure; however, quite a lot of PHP legacy - Good offices in Kyiv and Wroclaw; good benefits there - Mostly good hardware for engineers - If you haven't had AB testing experience before, you can get it here in some departments, but it comes with a grain of salt
Cons
- A lot of politics and even quite visible tension between major stakeholders. - They have a career framework with a competency matrix, but it doesn't work; people get promoted based on politics. It’s not rare to find a Senior much more skilled than a Principal. - They broke their word, including personally for me, so keep any agreements on paper with them. - The salary is below that of good companies even in Europe, not telling about US-based salaries on some shady benchmark done by nobody knows when and how. - They will never come and calibrate your salary with the market; you always have to do it yourself. - For the last 10 years, they have kept telling stock option holders about "IPO next year." - AB tests are mostly broken and unreliable, but stakeholders do nothing with them, insisting this is the true way. Engineers have found a workaround to run experiments with mostly the same code until it passes the AB gate at least once. - no benefits for remote employees. - Mostly no good HRBPs; those were good, but all quit. - They have people working from Russia, though. They helped most of the people who volunteered to move to Georgia.