Pros
- great people who are intelligent and dependable - management that listens - great downtown location - lunch catering 3 times per week - occasional happy hours and rare offsites - brilliant, if understaffed, engineering team When I started at TalentBin, it was like the cool twenty-something entrepreneur that everyone wanted to be like. Now it's like the forty-something dad that is trying to be cool but keeps using slang incorrectly. It's trying, but can't quite get it right.
Cons
- lots of your job is putting out fires and compensating for systemic issues - few opportunities for advancement or career development - lots of turnover, positions not being backfilled - unexpected challenges popping up because of being a very small part of a VERY big corporation - loss of original company culture due to acquisitions and founding-employee turnover (this is not a start-up culture anymore) - people on different teams don't interact as much as they used to, somewhat clique-ish