Pros
Unlimited PTO, just remember to use it. Decent starting salary.
Cons
My first job as a software engineer, and it was a miserable one. I was a coding bootcamp graduate, so set up well with the foundations but wildly inexperienced. I guess they thought I was a bargain hire, not knowing bootcamp coders are longer-term investment projects. In short, I was set up to fail. -I was thrown in the deep end and only given token efforts at support. -No mentoring of any kind, or even a codified onboarding process beyond the most basic of steps -Complete garbage Confluence wiki that’s next to useless -Was told I needed to speak up and ask more questions, then reprimanded for asking too many questions. -Complete misuse of Agile practices, which had minimal effect on the experienced coders, but for me only served to beat me down further and reinforce a characterization of incompetence. -So many requests for help went unanswered that ChatGPT actually became my best coding resource -My work was routinely condemned for being slow and error prone—which it was, as I had 32 weeks of programming experience before starting—but was never given any kind of actionable feedback to improve or quantifiable metrics to reach -Company is east coast, I’m west coast; I was promised that eventually morning meetings would be moved later to accommodate this difference which exacerbated mental health issues; I had to actually file formal ADA requests to get anything done, and even then attempts were made to push things back. And this is what I can pull off the top of my head without consulting notes I took during my time there.