Pros
- You get a paycheck and reasonable medical, dental, and vision healthcare benefits.
Cons
- Significantly lower salaries than market rate for the tech industry (10K-15k below), with slim chances of cost of living adjustments. No bonuses or raises for merit. - Poor benefits that are actively being reduced (10 days of sick leave eliminated with no warning and the company tried to do it retroactively). Minimal PTO and holidays compared to similar roles at other companies. While this is a remote-first company, there are no WFH stipends for wifi or similar. No 401k match until after 1yr at the company. -Abysmal work-life balance. Employees are expected to respond to comms within 30mins, work on other projects during meetings, not take full lunch breaks during "busy" times, and be available after working hours with no notice (e.g, medical appointments or college classes are poor "excuses" as to why an employee is unavailable after close of business at 5PM.) -Poor company culture and norms. While this may vary based on your assigned project, team norms include patronizing micromanagement, embarrassingly inefficient operations and communications, and nonexistent prioritization (everything is a fire drill). -Extremely poor management and leadership communication. Frequent gaslighting about benefits, comp, workload, and more. Often management asks for extensive operational changes with no warning while treating it like a reasonable request (e.g., complete 5+ hours of training in two business days or loose access to all your accounts to transition to a new system with 2hrs notice, but still do all your work). -Internal IT support is worse than Comcast. Simple changes to internal systems like address updates or preferred names changes can take literal months to complete (if at all).