Pros
- An interesting product that has real-life impact. - A tight team, everyone knows everyone well, and work very closely with each other. - Good work life balance, flexible work schedule, friendly & smart & funny co-workers. - Leaders really care about you. They don't just say this. One example is that your financial rewards are closely tight to company's growth. During my 2.5 years at Routific, I never asked for a raise, but I kept earning more. The salary is much better than most start-ups of the same or bigger sizes in Canada. - From a technical perspective, engineers at Routific keep up with industry trends, so the stacks are relatively modern.
Kontras
- Working at a startup, you got the chance to work on every aspect of engineering, applications/devops, etc. Sometimes even outside of engineering, e.g. ux, analytics. For me I really enjoy this. But maybe not everyone like so (you won't be forced to do so though) - Vancouver is too expensive to live for young families, the reason I left