Vantaggi
- Lots of enthusiasm, especially among younger colleagues - A lot of nice and smart people. - Good place to work for people that have never worked anywhere else (so that they can understand how various functional units come together to run a small/medium company) and for senior people from other places (who can tell the company how things are going wrong and how they can be fixed). - Some teams have fabulous managers who care (and know how to) develop people. Sadly very rare
Svantaggi
- Not a great to place to work if you aren't very junior or very senior. - Lack of domain expertise and general problem-solving skills (traditional plan B for poor domain knowledge), even among very senior peoples. So no real direction on a lot of teams. Feel like a lot of things here are "shoot first, aim later". - Poor accountability, but our HR team is fixing this (at least for junior people). Super-seniors will probably remain immune. - Borderline unprofessional workplace that makes several people (particularly women) feel uncomfortable. Not harassment so much as crass jokes and "political incorrectness". Not sure if management sees this as an issue. - Senior engineering managers have giant egos that make them very unpleasant to work with. Lots of big-fish in this small pond. - No great way of turning enthusiasm and relative smarts of people into great results: institutional inefficiency.