Pros
People are (were) excited and young. Offices are nice. Pretty standard tech benefits if you are one of the people CB hires fully. Note: It is not uncommon to start as Independent Contractors with much lower pay so CB saves on taxes, before hiring fully on to their same team with same workload but then with a normal SF/NYC salary.
Kontras
Where to start.. Let's try chronological the last year or so: Last Summer: crypto was swelling and company was ideating lots of new expansion. Covid policies were solid and executed well, and remote work was going great. Everyone was pretty optimistic. CB still seemed innovative. Last Fall: expansion frenzy begins (excessive hiring). NFT initiatives and other business units popping up like crazy ahead of new year. Execs spend tons and tons on travel, lobbying, and M&As. Everyone is struggling to keep up with break-neck scaling. Some burnout, but just a push to EOY right? Winter/Spring 22: People start getting coerced to come in to offices and offsites. Most of these become Covid spreader events. Especially after Omicron. But CB does them more and more anyways. Initiatives from Fall start falling short and people start winging things beyond procedures/plans to deliver something. Summer (recently): Covid rules get thrown out the window and simplified to "you don't need to be vaccinated but if you feel sick just don't come to work". They only are making you test negative and be vaxx'd for offsites and travel since other countries largely require these. Employees brace for months of offsites at "the most convenient office for most important teams" which is just really everyone rotating into the SF office to work at a big table together with their team and "collaborate". Also the 20% layoffs. Also no meals in offices. Also the "postponement" of intern return offers. Also huge spends on unnecessary Exec privileges while not paying multiple vendors, contracts, etc. for months (maybe a few million worth at this rate). Also the performance/top performer bonuses and promos to try keeping some around through EOY or maybe to make others who didn't receive them dissatisfied enough to quit before CB has to do more layoffs. CB is no longer the innovator in crypto they think they are but instead the most basic US provider who can barely keep that chugging along or fix their People Ops.