Pros
- Good work life balance. Never had to work on call or felt any pressure to exceed 40 hours per week. - Pretty good benefits. PTO and time off were excellent. - Can't really argue with the mission. - Plenty of interesting work to be done; generally good opportunities to stretch yourself and grab new responsibilities. - The original Daniel/Lynne leadership team really seemed to actually care about employees. Not saying they were perfect, but it was an environment where I believed in their intentions and felt encouraged to voice my opinions and take an active role in growing myself and the company. **note that this site lists Daniel as CEO. He is not the ceo, and has not been driving company direction for over a year.
Kontras
- Major leadership change in late 2023. Strong shift away from the startup atmosphere towards a more corporate feel. Not a problem in and of itself, but generally the trade off for dealing with that is more stability/better pay, which is not happening. - Lack of consistent direction. Constant change in product strategy, sometimes accompanying leadership changes and sometimes framed as a "pivot." Pivoting every 6 months is not a solid business strategy and results in a lot of wasted engineering work. - Virtually no internal growth or promotion. Pay raises have to be fought for. - Current leadership team holds frequent all hands meetings that are essentially opportunities for leadership to push "everything is great" propaganda. Pressure to ignore/shut up about glaring issues in order to "buy in." - General overfocus on DEI and everybody being hugs and kisses friendly, sometimes at the expense of prioritizing competence and actually, you know, building a good product and making money. - Business/revenue is pretty constantly poor. I do not know enough about the market to know why this is (poor salesmanship, non existent market, bad product direction, who knows?), but aside from a brief period following a VC injection, it always felt like the company could go under at any time.