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The biggest con is that this company has 0 loyalty to employees. They talk about people being one of the most important assets, but when it comes to real action, the upper management has zero sympathy for its employees. You're just a number. Go somewhere loyal, where the company actually cares about you. When they laid off people, they kicked them out the door like an old dog. Not even as much as a thank you. Upper management is a joke. Jack keeps sitting on two chairs. Easiest fix to stock troubles would be to resign from Square. Noto took a ridiculous amount of money when he joined. And they had the audacity to vest all his stock at once "just to help him move to SF". Disgusting. Too many good people left in the last 1-1.5 years. The trend will continue - they will keep bleeding talent. Some people go *back* to the companies they left to join Twitter - how bad is that??!? Save yourself the trouble, go somewhere else.

I was a tech lead in my group and made many contributions to several projects. I got a second salary rise, the management once again told me how awesome my work is... and ten days later, I got laid off. After that, several engineers from the group wrote me privately that they are shocked by this decision, that my productivity and overall impact was exceptional, etc. Make your conclusions. I can confirm what others have already said: at some point the company started to bring in a lot of middle managers from outside who turned out to be not very competent at best and political at worst. As a result, I've seen, in particular, cases of groundless criticism of hard-working people and apparent favoritism towards some lazy ones. Engineers who did almost no work for months and were "in meetings" all the time, were nevertheless treated with respect, asked to write one useless design proposal after another, etc. Seeing all this, young and dynamic guys with a proven record of success would leave the group and eventually the company, while the management would happily hire twice more of new, less experienced and energetic people.