Vantaggi
Very relaxing atmosphere. Long lunch breaks. Ping pong table. Low stress environment. Nice people. Excellent location Good holidays, pay, and benefits
Svantaggi
The job was advertised as being a startup job at a cool company with exposure to modern technologies(Clojure, Ruby on Rails, React). The overwhelming bulk of the work was maintaining an incredibly poorly architected codebase in Java 7 written by the acquirer (ebay), exactly as instructed by the US office. Decisions take almost forever to make. Feedback is loudly welcomed and then promptly discarded. The state of the codebase is awful - static initialization is practiced as a matter of course(for instance), and the configuration is tracked through an in house built and maintained system. Agile practices are spoken of and ignored. No real attempts at resolving the issues are taken. Any open discourse about the situation is suppressed by management. No new technologies or progress is attempted.