Vantaggi
The salary is acceptable. The campus is conveniently located. The benefits are adequate. Generous combination of 401k matching, bonus, stock, and ESPP.
Svantaggi
Parking is tight. Space in general is tight. There is effectively no choice in health insurance, with Kaiser being the only HMO and only one PPO and one CDHP plan. Upper management is profoundly ignorant of its employees: would you acquire a startup without at least talking to the most highly compensated workers in addition to the founders? The HR/security/stock/accounting systems are disparate. MS Exchange is the corporate email standard, with all the limitations that implies. Several MILLION lines of Java in the codebase, with no hope of changing. The performance review process is from the '90s, managers review their subordinates, full stop. Bonus, stock, and ESPP are all on a protracted 7-14 month schedule, slow moving like everything else.