Great product and vision, but poor management.
Pros
-Exciting products to work with. You will feel that you are working on something important. Software made by the company has great ideas behind it, you won't get bored. -Challenging environment. If you like challenge in whatever you do, you won't be disappointed. -Intelligent and likeable co-workers. In general, people that you will work with will be having similar goals and attitude to life like you, they won't bore you, and you won't bore them. -Flexible hours, occasional work from home. Nobody cared if you start at 7 or 10, you could work from home if you need as well.
Cons
-Management I think management is the biggest problem in this company. Although they are smart, technical, and visionary, they lack in experience, communication, and understanding of how to achieve their goals. -Working off-hours and weekends While it was not mandatory to work after work hours or weekends, whoever was refusing it had it rebuked. This caused 90% of staff were working 12 hours and/or weekends to accomplish tasks. It was common to stay in the company till midnight, or having team-scrums on Saturday afternoon. -Lack of experience When I was working there, company was focused on hiring more junior staff, than experienced mid-seniors. Discussion about architecture, importance of tests and having clean, predictable code was ignored. They expected to deliver, but didn't care about state of it at all. -Emotional pression and lack of support Management was directly, but also emotionally pressing on people to accomplish their duties regardless their skill or knowledge, but there were no support at all. Documentation didn't exist and only way to learn was self-learn, at the same time it was expected do it in free time, as there was resistance to time spent on learning during working hours. if someone failed thought he was publicly shamed in front of rest of the team.
