Pros
During the initial 3/4th time of my tenure there it was the best place I worked for. Got a chance to learn a lot and improved my technical skills. There was a great culture for innovation. Even with the issues I had in the latter part of my tenure there, my technical skills were way better than ever before. The high entry barrier ensures that you have a chance to work with some of the best developers in Sydney.
Cons
As the company grew, politics grew even more. Favouritism in managers and sycophancy in the favourites was more evident. One instance in my team in their platform engineering domain after a leadership change was that a staff was even sending "missing you" songs to the manager everyday and and planning farewell/return event in team chat room when the manager went on leave. I also noticed that any innovative idea that would sideline/outshine a showcase deliverable by the more influential people was deliberately postponed or suppressed by prioritising minor work in the name of urgency. Even the good or challenging work was allocated to favourites in the team I noticed a lot of duplicate work/services was being done in their platform engineering teams because it was important for the managers to ensure they have some work to show. Many of these teams were trying to reinvent the same wheel again. There were some good developers there who could have contributed more doing the innovation in their products.