Vantaggi
Decent pay and experience working with some amazing senior developers.
Svantaggi
You could honestly write an amazon prime show on Tim the CEO's shenanigans. Here is what the repeating 6 month cycle at Alchemy looks like. 1. CEO Tim makes many lofty promises to customer. 2. Tim then doesn't put enough developers on the project and expects us to just re-use ancient Frankenstein code that barely works in the first place, even if the customer asked for a completely new product. 3. Customer then asks for more features which Tim promises to have those and even more, instead of pushing back on the customer. Then he turns the customers on the developers when the project and the new features aren't magically done immediately. This causes rushed work which causes more problems and more time. 4. Repeat step 3 for 3-8 months after the project deadline. 4A. sometime in steps 2-5 the CEO will hire 10-40 employees around the world and then fire them around 6 months after. 4B. Developers and QA will be rushed and harassed while constantly feeling/knowing their job is on the line. 5. After firing many of the developers, losing a customer or two, and finishing a project or two things may calm down enough to start back at step 1. There is so much more to go into that can't be written in one place. For example, Tim firing all 20 Ukrainian employees a few weeks into the Russian - Ukrainian war, even though some of them were still working after being relocated. This is after spending two weeks advertising how much of a philanthropist hero he was for getting others to donate to them. You could say that it's unfair to pin all these problems on one mane, but there's no one else to blame since he fired the other upper management and the rest quit.