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Pros

Great people to work with, everyone is super helpful. Good culture, free drinks for employees, good work life balance

Cons

Nothing comes to mind, no cons at all. Best place to work.

Pros

Good benefits, health and dental

Cons

Hard work, long work weeks

Pros

It's an excellent company, with great grown-up perks (pension, health insurance and stock) and a lot of social and sports clubs. Great place to work if you know what you want, not so much if you're starting your career and are still not so sure. Excellent culture.

Cons

There is little 1:1 with HR. Salary reviews are not a thing unless you're a software engineer or sales, or God. No free food, not really. You don't get machine upgrades or to pick your laptop, and if you lose your mouse it's not uncommon to feel guilty for asking for a new one. Silly stuff, but the devil is in the peripherals.

Advice to Management

Don't be so cheap.

Pros

The benefits including wellness, insurance, discounts and support are unmatched. When doing anything outside of work, you can almost always find a way the company will support what you are doing. This also carries into being able to very much fully disconnect from work as soon as I'm away from the building.

Cons

In the retail space there is a lot of change in direction and focus. Expectations can be vastly different from month to month, sometimes with little relevance to the previous ones.

Pros

Big company, so easy to transfer internally. Lots of perks life free gym, great insurance and facilities, great parties.

Cons

WLB is team specific and what you make of it. Engineers are not best of class. TC is way below FAANG.

Advice to Management

Managers needs to be trained and selected way more thoroughly. Managers at most part lack tech skills, lots and lots of politics. Managers abuse their power and occasionally abuse employees .