Pluspunten
Your work actually matters here. As a software engineer, I get to participate in interesting projects where I can genuinely build things, not just maintain legacy code. The collaboration between engineering and business is encouraged, goals are clear and team level managers are solid, supportive, technically aware, and easy to work with. The startup environment means things move fast and there's real ownership over what you ship.
Minpunten
The company has a startup culture and workload without the startup compensation package - no equity, limited benefits, and a high volume of work. The newer IT management is a positive step, but upper business leadership struggles to communicate and collaborate effectively with the engineering department. There's also a layer of business side employees whose actual work doesn't match their job titles, which creates confusion, noise and unnecessary distractions for developers - especially when they bypass team managers and go directly to engineers