Pros
Good compensation. In office is optional in most locations.
Cons
Bad tech and product leadership rooted in the weak product and engineering backgrounds of the founders and founding engineers. We've failed to grow successfully in terms of technical maturity and product management. External senior hires have almost all failed to integrate and drive meaningful transformation. Key people have almost all been promoted from within, but they have not operated at the company's current scale, nor do they have experience witnessing that kind of scale-up. As a result, the company still operates like the small startup it was years ago. Major new initiatives and product launches have either been dead on arrival or copycats of others. The more senior the leadership, the more reliant they are on LLMs, and the more they delegate their thinking to them.