Pros
Pay is competitive. Benefits are good considering how small the company is.
Kontras
As of Feb 2023: - Two days in the office per week for employees within a 40 mile radius of an office, with limited exceptions. - Remote hires have stopped happening with limited exceptions. - CEO says the pandemic is over, which is flat out wrong. I personally know three people who have gotten COVID in the last month alone. As of September 2023: - CEO declared that we are "at war" and used some pretty creepy language to describe it. Even included a picture of a battleship in his presentation. - Mandatory 3 days per week in office for employees within 40 miles of an office. - The flex Friday benefit we had, one of the main reasons I joined, is now gone for the engineering department. Seems like upper management doesn't value the 4 day work week anymore, despite the blog post we wrote about it. - CEO openly suggested we start working longer days and weekends in order to achieve the company/his goals. Everything has been turned on its head here. It's like a fever dream. Middle management is full of brown-noses who only wish to toe the company line and support the RTO policy for the sake of "team collaboration" and "team productivity" and "reducing friction". So you throw a bunch of people, only some of whom seem not to work well with each other, into the same room 3 days a week, in hopes that you'll get what, exactly? Commuting wastes time and money. Being away from home makes childcare difficult. RTO policies force employees to make a lot of difficult adjustments in their lives. Remote employees feel edged out, as if they're an afterthought. They're a dead end to the evolution of employees at this company. And they feel stuck, because so many other stupid companies (but not all companies) have this draconian office-first mentality. Tech workers know they can do their job from anywhere. The brief interruptions on zoom meetings are not enough cause to disrupt your employees' work patterns.