Pros
- Used to be a great place in the past, so there are some remnants of this still: nice people and interesting problems and tech. - Not something you can get if you're hired now, but if you got previous RSUs that inflated during acquisition, the pay is on a higher end now. - If you are willing to sacrifice your health and other areas of your life to follow a billionaire's vision without asking too many questions, then this might be a good place for you.
Cons
- You'll be labelled and ridiculed no matter what you do. There's no way to be neutral and just do the job and keep your political views private. You're either elon's boy or a leftist radical. This is not a place for just having a job and making a living. - You'll be told to attend meetings late at night and on the weekends. The meetings will be announced as high urgency, but after attending you'll realise there was nothing urgent about them—just an attempt to control everyone through fear. - Constant attempts to fire people for 'performance' - unspecified criteria roughly based on lines of code you write? This ruins the culture of collaboration-instead of working with a team on an idea, many people choose to go it alone so they can milk the project and feel safer for a bit. Also, you'll see more competition and less collaboration, code reviews no longer aim to improve the code, but become a weapon that people can use to compete. - Toxic hustle culture not friendly to people with kids or interesting life outside work, volunteering or hobbies. You're expected to give 110% and this is very risky, because there are pretty high chances that in a few years you'll regret these choices - the mission may fail, you'll burn out or lose your wife or fall ill. - Managers are only trying to please elon, no matter how absurd or ridiculous they get. They are very happy to throw their colleagues and engineers under the bus. - The company may fail due to advertisers quitting and the debt burden that elon put on it. This is not something that Twitter 1.0 caused - this is the new management doing. - PTO and perks and benefits are slowly stripped. The ideal vision seems to turn employees into something akin to factory workers. - Product ideas are not that great, there isn't enough room for discourse since there is way too much ego in the room.