Avid

Pros: The benefits package is solid, especially for a corporate environment. You get to work on some industry-leading media production tools. There are definitely a lot of smart folks in the engineering roles.
Cons: Career growth isn't prioritized, especially for long-term employees. It's really hard to move up the ladder; internal promotions are rare. You often see them hiring externally for roles that current employees could fill.
Advice to Management: Management really needs to focus on developing and promoting existing employees. Create clear pathways for advancement for those contributing to core media production software. Invest in your current talent instead of always looking outside.

Pros: My team was solid; we worked well together. It's cool to build software for industry-standard media creation technology. For remote software engineer roles, you do get decent work-life balance.
Cons: The corporate environment feels super slow sometimes. There's not much room for fresh ideas for engineering roles. It's hard to feel truly innovative here.
Advice to Management: Try to empower your teams more. Listen to those on the ground floor. We need to be quicker to adapt in the media technology space.