Prós
- Challenging work. Fast paced release cycles. - Sharp and hardworking team-members - Good work culture. No office politics. - Good learning resources like internal libraries, learning portals and lectures and classes on the site. - Agile methodology and daily scrums. - Opportunity to innovate, design and implement new tools, features and products. - Great support for filing patents. (help in fleshing out original ideas to the point that it can be patented)
Contras
- Old RTP facility bursting at the seams - Average compensation and average benefits - 'Unflexible' hours, work from home allowed not encouraged. - Sometimes the management can disconnect itself with your career development goals. - Most of the QE work is outsourced to another country and it can be frustrating to work. - Software Developers can be asked to work as Customer Engineers (on biweekly rotation or such) and although helpful for a while, can become dull after a while.