Pros
- Great Austin office location with parking
- Good benefits, unlimited PTO (although there are employees that abuses it)
- Mostly great coworkers, 90% of colleagues are hard working and enjoyable to be around and care about the company culture and mission.
- There is a strategy to move the company forward with new products and changes in process, yes, it is uncomfortable for some that are used to coasting their way through life, but change requires hard work.
- Hybrid policy is great, most people come in on Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday
- Continuous learning and skill development through free access of Udemy
- Career growth opportunities, quite a few internal promotions in the last 2 years.
Cons
- With the company spending the last 3 years building new software and features there a lot of changes, expectations, and work. But there are a few employees that are dead weight (abusing hybrid policy, abusing unlimited PTO, logging on after 10/11 AM leading to colleagues having to cover for them) And these are usually the same ones that complain all day.
- My manager needs to better manage certain people abusing unlimited PTO, there should not be someone on my team taking 4-8 times as much as others leaving us to cover for them.
- Not enough enforcement set on deadlines and expectation on product and feature releases.
- Release schedules/milestone often miss, bug issues, lack of robust QE/QA