Pros
- Highly competitive place, there is always someone better than you. - Lot of opportunities to grow your career - People generally take pride in the work, however bad quality the work is :) - If you're a campus hire, this is the best place to be (lot of perks: all expense paid NY trip for 2 weeks, Options to choose your team, higher package [so high, that there will be very less companies that you can go to], lot of networking sessions) A piece of advice to the campus hires, if you're planning to study further, join the company, go enjoy the NY trip. then quit. There are not conditions on the trip.
Cons
- The company has messed up its pay scale, there is huge parity within the same team, people with similar experience/background/titles might earn upto 2x times as you. The situation is so bad, there are senior folks making less money than the juniors - There will NEVER be work/life balance. - The interview process is so painful, that they are never sure of if they would want to recruit or not until they roll out the offer. Plus the whole process is roughly 10-12 rounds spanning over 1.5 months - They claim the bonus is performance based, which is no where closer to the reality. There is often a parity between performance review to the real work that the individual did - Regarding bonuses: The first year for lateral hire is base bonus (which isn't based on the performance of the employee), generally very low (unless they disclose the figure to you at the time of joining) and then they pro rate the amount to the time until you work.