Pros
Great ICs. Most have been there since college, and they truly have a desire to drive impact.
Kontras
Product organization leadership is toxic. If you value your mental health, avoid this group. They switch up strategy every 6 months. Their directives are just buzzwords with no real direction. They’ll ask you to do something vague, and then tell you it’s not what they asked for after you deliver it. Rinse and repeat. They don’t seek to learn the right way grow a product. Listening to 2 episodes of Lenny’s Poscast will give you more product knowledge than the entire Product Senior leadership group combined. Getting treated poorly by a Product Leader? Sorry, no one is going to help you. The whole org protects these leaders, regardless of the emotional harm they inflict. I've spoken with at least 3 PMs who said they found themselves in tears on the office bathroom bc of how they are treated. There's also a lack of accountability for the product not growing. Sr leaders keep blaming it on the PMs or Directors, but it's pretty clear that it's a leadership problem.