Vantaggi
Decent enough pay. If you live far enough away from Bulverde, they may pay you to drive down and interview, and they pay for your relocation expenses if you get hired. Decent benefits. Most of the immediate co-workers are really decent and level-headed. There are free drinks and snacks in the snack machine. Sometimes they'll bring food trucks onto campus, with all food paid for on the company dime. Free Spurs tickets. They'll brag about that endlessly. You won't get to see any games with the pandemic going on, though. You get a free placard with your name on it when you begin, and a box of company paraphernalia. Everyone got AirPods from the company as a Christmas gift in 2020. They will typically let you know whenever you are exposed to Covid from someone who sits near you. That's "nice."
Svantaggi
Prepare to be unhappy a month in, and prepare to be looking for a new job two months in. The Covid policy is virtually nonexistent, and masks are not enforced. All employees got to work remotely in March 2020; this lasted about a month and a half until we were ordered back into the office by the CEO for no apparent reason. After that, Covid exposure occurred multiple times, and it was like pulling teeth to get to work remotely each time. There were multiple company get-togethers in enclosed spaces where a bunch of folks didn't wear masks. The CEO rarely (if ever) wears a mask in meetings or at gatherings. There are so many people walking around without masks, potentially spreading the virus, and the C-suite just doesn't seem to care. There is ZERO product training. It is unfathomable why this company thinks it's okay to give their documentation folks no baseline knowledge of their products, especially if one's background is NOT in cryptography. The only "training" is a fifteen minute overview of the API structure (if you're lucky). Instead, one will be expected to instead bother the overworked Solutions Architect team, which would could be helpful if you even know what questions to ask. There is a lot of bullying and micromanagement. Prepare to be lambasted for not being "up to standards" (which is unfair given the lack of training), told that the C-suite will "be mean and ask a bunch of really tough questions" (they don't), constantly told that any meeting you present in is an abject disaster (even though they aren't), and have all ideas for improvement dismissed hand over foot. They don't want you to do things on your own; they want a subservient flunkie. Your workload will be stacked. Your estimated hours will be reduced to something "more acceptable," then you will be given more work. And this will begin about a month in, when you will finally have barely even gotten first access to one of the products. You will get thrown under the bus because of your lack of knowledge. If you miss an assignment because of your lack of training or lack of useful guidance, it will be held over your head. Prepare for verbal threats against your job -- meaning, your health insurance and livelihood -- with a SMILE, for egregious sins such as misremembering API commands off the top of your head. These threats can and do happen IN THE MIDDLE OF A PANDEMIC. Highly immoral, and you can't not take it personally. Turnover is ridiculous; most people quit, but Futurex also fired an employee right after they came back from being sick with Covid. The products are mismanaged and not user-friendly (from all appearances, there are no certified PMP's on staff), the C-suite are dictatorial but focused on inconsequential nonsense (can't see the forest for the trees), all of the C-suite are workaholics (and expect it of their underlings), and no one communicates efficiently, adding stress to the job; you will have no idea what you are expected to know at any given moment. They are proudly "at will," and the employee handbook is a draconian list of "do nots" that says they can fire you for perceived slights like discussing your pay with coworkers. The campus is not ADA compliant at all. There is no dedicated on-site IT department. You will be reliant on employees whose secondary task is IT, and it is a pain chasing down who does what. Also, the C-suite does not consider you a person. You are a "resource." An easily replaceable cog in the machine. All of it adds up to a de-motivational and toxic working environment. It will take a VERY negative toll on your mental health and emotional well-being. If you go into Futurex with optimism and enthusiasm, the powers-that-be will annihilate that.