Avantages
The good: - Health care was top notch. - Starting pay for college graduates was good. The OK: - There is 401k matching but on a 5-year vesting schedule. - ESPP, with sell restrictions. - Lunch is free from the generic cafeteria. The food quality is pretty poor. - Work-life balance is alright, however, there is also on-call, so depending on the team you might have to carry your laptop around with you 20% of the time and likely get paged in the middle of the night. You are not compensated for days of free time lost due to pages of unstable systems.
Inconvénients
- Unexcusably low pay raises for top performers. - No bonuses. - Comp is pretty much evenly distributed across engineering, so don't expect more money if you work on a fast growing or revenue generating project. - A lot of engineers in Norwalk seem to be pretty unhappy. - Heavy outsourcing. - Ridiculous bureaucracy. - Management will pretty much lie to your face on a regular basis. - For an "engineering" company, there are some pretty bad practices (No QA on some products, poor unit testing, old versions of languages and frameworks) - This is a feature factory