Pros
Somewhat relaxed culture. Many of the employees are helpful and nice to work with. Promotes from within. (Sometimes a con) Nice office. Standup/sit down desks. Can choose Mac or PC. Free fancy coffee machine in break room. 4% 401k matching(immediate vesting) after the first 3 month. Decent health insurance.
Cons
Management puts people in charge of projects who have no business in charge of projects. The people in charge of projects just want work done, but give no direction of how things fit in the bigger picture. You will code many things, just to have them deleted later because for some reason no one wants to plan anything at this company. How anything gets done is beyond me. Usually it is in spite of management. I have witnessed management deciding to have one team do pair programming for a couple of months when no one on the team had pair programming experience. Then they stopped it, because surprise surprise, worked didn't get done because nobody was familiar with a pair programming workflow. The CEO of the company seems to be a very angry person. He yelled(yes yelled) at employees to pick up Nerf darts, even though it is supposed to be a cool culture where Nerf wars are just par for the course. Nerf wars have all but stopped since then. This is just one example of the owner being not so nice. The CTO has written some of the worst code I have ever seen that was written recently. If you work here straight out of college be prepared to work for a place that pretends to do industry standard things, but does nothing like most other companies. You might be expected to install software on servers for months on end doing IT related jobs and not software development. Half the people will misuse words like "user story" or "refactor" in ways that make it hard to understand what's going on. This is not an egalitarian company. The people who were with the company from the early days all have offices with doors, unlike many other software companies where the president of the company sits right next to the newest hire. Depending on what project you are on or which team lead you have you might have team lead who will barely talk to you, or you might have a team lead who wants to know what time of day you are going to lunch everyday so they can keep track of you. Flextime is a lie. When you get hired they will say you will get flex time working when ever you need to, but you will be expected to be in the office during core hours of 9AM to 4PM everyday at minimum. You will hear management and project managers reiterate basically once a week that everybody needs to be in the office during those hours. I honestly believe this is because they spent a bunch of money building out a new office, and they don't want it to be empty. It will eventually be empty if they keep up the terrible management style. There are so few reviews of this company on glassdoor, because all employees sign a document (under duress) that they cannot say anything good or bad about the company on social media. You will get no equity working at this company. In operations you will be writing Jython which is basically a dead language. Everything must be built off the core product, so as a software developer there will be no design decisions. Things are built off the core product even when it make no sense to do so, and creates a worse less functional end product for users. Solr is the only database/documents store option(Solr shouldn't be used for golden record)
