Vantaggi
- Pay is competitive - Exposure to various technologies - Rapid learning - Interesting problems to solve - If you can avoid the product and CEO merry-go-round you can actually achieve something, paytech is a great example of this
Svantaggi
- CEO learnt everything he knows about management during a couple of years of conscription in the Israeli military as an adolescent, he hasn't learnt much since so constantly refers to this as it makes him superior to us mere mortals. - Teams and objectives are changed so often that the end result is half complete features, product debt, poorly managed careers and high staff turnover. - The CEO flip-flops between emotional outbursts targeting individuals on public channels and apologising or clarifying himself after some reflection. Usually in the meantime his minions (the senior leadership) backup his views to curry favour using slightly nicer words . The problem is they look stupid once he retracts what he has said. - Some product owners can be hostile towards engineers trying to do things properly and prevent customer harm, this is a direct result of pressure from the CEO.