Pros
-Some very good people. It's easy to make friends and good ones at that. People can make their own chat rooms while working and share memes and nonsense all day. -Coffee and snacks. -Pay is okay. However, you will gain little transferrable skills - if you look up positions like this you will see that it is often outsourced to places like India, so it's very hard to make a career out of this role and go places financially. -It's a cool thing to be a part of. In the future if cars can drive themselves, you'll be able to say you were a part of that.
Cons
-This is not the luxurious, big tech, ping-pong in the break room kind of job you might be thinking of. This is a churn-and-burn digital sweat shop where you are treated like a number and that's the only thing that matters to higher management. You sit in a windowless office in a building that looks like a high school along with hundreds of coworkers that are just as miserable as you will be. -There is one driveway entrance to the entire building, so at the end of the work day all the hundreds of analysts leave at the same time, jamming the parking lot for upwards of 30 minutes every day. Unless you sprint out the door first, expect to spend more of your day sitting at the factory unpaid in your car. -This would be the easiest job in the world to have remote/hybrid work be an option. On most days, you don't even have to talk to your lead or anyone else in person. They'd rather have everyone crammed into an office and use hundreds of gallons of gas a day to get there. Counterproductive for a company focused on sustainability. -Upper management is the root of most problems here. Favoritism runs rampant for promotions and policies are inconsistent depending on who is in charge of you. Things like time off, disciplinary actions, etc. are handed out differently between supervisors. They break their own rules but do not seem to be held to the same standards as analysts due to the aforementioned favoritism. They also like to leave the office 10-15 mins early since they are salaried and don't need to wait to clock out and deal with the aforementioned parking lot issue. -Every 6 months they have performance reviews that are just like getting your report cart in middle school. Except in this instance, they do a mass firing of dozens of analysts that didn't hit their arbitrary numbers in that period. Be prepared to see several of your friends get called into a random meeting, never to be seen again, and hoping that you aren't next. -Downtime of any kind doesn't exist. They use software to track how long you've been staring at your computer screen on a daily basis, and if you don't hit their standard -- even due to bathroom breaks, emergency phone calls, burnout, etc. -- you will be disciplined. This also goes for attendance. If your car breaks down or you have a family emergency, you'll still get attendance points on your record that can be used to fire you during those reviews mentioned above.
