Vantaggi
Job teaches you to be very precise and deliver fast. You learn to work under pressure and ship quality code quickly. Latest tech is adopted fast if it can benefit the product. Management relies on employees with architectural decisions and trusts engineers to make technical choices. Great place to start/grow your career if you want hands-on experience. Projects are often ambitious and you get to work on challenging problems.
Svantaggi
Not a startup, but managed like one - all the chaos without the equity upside. No working from home option, which feels outdated in 2024/2025. Office politics can be draining - finding a way to deal with the management team sometimes feels more important than technical competency. Navigating personalities and expectations takes energy away from actual engineering work.