Pros
Company has amazing, world-changing technology, and it’s working hard to figure out which markets will stick. This requires employees to be adaptable, flexible and really curious, because it’s likely you’ll get to work on something different at some point in your tenure. This may not be for you, but if that sounds interesting it will expand your resume in ways you never thought possible on orientation day, even if you’re in a non-technical role. Our culture is pretty unique, mostly non-political, everyone is direct with each other. Mistakes are embraced as part of innovation, it’s not cool to CYA and throw others under the bus.
Kontras
No company is perfect, but my biggest peeve is that we’re slaves to shareholders quarterly expectations, which means we’re constantly crunching down on expenses each quarter. This drives bad (hoarding) behavior internally, and doesn’t allow us to take a long term look at opportunities and risks and be responsive and proactive v reactive. The company has a short term focus, which comes from us switching into new markets constantly, so we haven’t paid attention to building our brand with consumers like Intel did at this point in their business, and investing in building the people who are here (through training, sabbaticals, etc). Some recent investments and hires give me hope this will change in the next few years.