Vantaggi
Credit where credit is due. Discord has been the least "toxic" work environment in my career working in many different industries and organizations of differing sizes. On many occasions, I saw Discord abide by the values they preached. Workers are treated with respect, and the work/life balance is as good as a start up can get.
Svantaggi
Discord's work culture that I listed as a pro becomes a disservice for early-career employees. There is a sense of "coddling" that produced a happy but naive workforce. Which leads to the more egregious issue at Discord, and how it was allowed to fester. Jobs titles are heavily under-calibrated and mismatched with the actual responsibilities. My suspicion is that this is done on purpose. It has to do with Discord's policy of compensating at the 85th percentile, which is very easy to do when your workforce is hired at 1 or sometimes 2 levels below their actual responsibilities. From speaking with other employees in different departments, this seems to be a systemic issue. There were heads of departments that did not hold senior titles for example...