Pros
- ICs and middle management are great; very talented and impact-oriented, with strong teamwork - Tech stack is good, leveraging off-the-shelf products when possible so the team focuses on building actually novel stuff
Kontras
- CEO is toxic and ineffective. He won't listen to constructive feedback and cancels 1:1s and other meetings to avoid hearing any criticism. - There's no sales organization, just a business development team that is constantly selling new products that the engineering team has to whip up. Lots (most?) of these projects never actually launch because deals don't get signed. This is a big cause of burnout. - The Board doesn't seem to have any involvement in the company, so leadership is never held to account. - Leadership keeps fundraising without a clear long-term profitability strategy. - Any push back on projects is seen as a failure of the engineering team to do their jobs.