Vantaggi
Learning opportunities, problem solving, dynamic environment, no boundaries as to what is your job and what isn't so you get to collaborate with virtually anyone in the company in any initiative as long as you can handle it, opportunity to work closely with more senior people and learn by doing. Pay is above market average. Home office (which is changing to hybrid for some areas). Excellent people, who want to make it happen and actually work for it. Guilherme Benchimol is an awesome leader to listen to.
Svantaggi
No work/life balance. Leaders and managers (including senior management), are unprepared and untrained. Lack of pragmatism, company wants to do it all at the same time and expect incredible results while splitting capacity between lots of strategic fronts that are all considered a priority at the same time. Incapacity of prioritizing and committing to trade offs. Confusing value proposition. No career planning. Company allows for abusive behaviours and changes rules in the middle of the "game", such as rules for semestral bonus pay and promotions. Politics is too important all the time, and many "seniors" or managers are underqualified for their roles, whereas "junior" people who answer to those managers are often overqualified (and underpaid) for their roles but often do less politics. The opinion that matters the most is often the highest paid person's opinion or the highest AuC customer when they complain, not actual data or user insights, and because of that, discussions tend to be very focused on the short term. General insecurities about pay because of variability and change of rules, as well as management biases. Priorities changed all the time. Management often forgot what was agreed upon or changed their minds, but couldn't guide or lead the team. Very stressful environment where everything might suddenly and unpredictably turn into a mistake and it will be your fault, not the manager's after not guiding the teams appropriately. Sexism is common, albeit often unintentional but uncomfortable anyway, as the company's core business still is investments.