Pros
- Worked with some smart people - There is a lot of autonomy despite a lot of the cons below
Kontras
Hopper really makes individual contributors feel like miserable peons and the management is so fickle and crazy you never know what to expect. Hopper puts a lot of pressure on ICs to produce, and yet don't show a lot of gratitude for your smart, innovative and hard work. Seriously, I have seen some people really go above and beyond on project after project, only to be let go on the whim of someone in management. And in one very visible instance, management decided to let go a huge chunk of talented staff, only to reverse course less than a year later and hire people back into that part of the business (of course they didn't bother trying to re-hire the people they let go though). The work is diverse enough to be somewhat interesting, but honestly its not worth the pain and lack of security, and good luck to you if you have to work directly with someone in management.