Pros

Best Culture, Best People, Great Benefits

Kontras

At times, hours could be long, weather cold.

Pros

Southwest is hailed as one of the best companies to work for and rightly so: - 9.3% 401k match - fantastic work/life balance (rarely ever over 35 hrs/week) - flight benefits - amazing general culture - pay is relatively competitive for DFW - interesting problems - toxic teams are very few and far between - volunteering is suggested and can be done during work hours - lots of company events - ...

Kontras

The downsides of this company are due to the remnants of older workers: - complacent workers - lack of drive and passion since the majority of engineers are older folk - many are institutionalized and stuck in their ways: hard requirements for time-in-seat that prevents fast career growth, lack of desire to change for the better, plenty of "that's how we've always done it" attitude - many teams that work with much older technologies (VB6, Java 7, Struts) - teams are project-focused rather than product, so apps are left collecting dust until something breaks or until it's up for the "chopping block"