Pros
- Extremely relaxed environment (possibly too relaxed). - Very good work/life balance, nobody is expected to work long hours/weekends/etc. - Strong focus on learning & development; lots of resources, subscriptions, exams paid for, decent personal training budget. - Some genuinely great people.
Cons
- Pieces of work that should realistically take a week end up taking much longer due to politics, process, poor requirements. - Very hard to release, too much painful process and paperwork means releases aren’t regular. Big bang releases once a month or less aren't agile. - Too many unnecessary levels of management, considering apparently self-managing agile teams. Too much decision making works its way too high up the management hierarchy and slows teams down. - Lots of SEMs, TPMs and POs simply don’t understand the technical work enough which results in confusion. Designers are spread too thinly, often working with many teams at a time which also doesn’t help. - It’s hard to get excited about the work and the product. Nothing is really innovative and no boundaries are pushed. Rare to be able to work with cutting-edge tech because the business deems it too risky to migrate.