Great place to work. Strategy, alignment and political issues.
Pros
All the benefits of a young tech company: -Great, intelligent and healthy coworkers - I was lucky to be on a phenomenal team of people whom I really enjoyed - Great opportunity to do exciting work in an agile environment -It's overall fun - hip, trendy, open office, etc -Great perks: free lunches, dinner, ride/UberEats credits, equity, etc -Microkitchens -Bring your dog to work in some offices -Unlimited time off -Opportunity to move around the company -The CEO can be inspirational at times
Cons
Disconnect between management and employees on which direction the company will go. Is it a platform? What does that even mean? Internal politics are pretty gross and counterproductive. Tough to make business savvy and aligned decisions at the mid levels because someone's political ambitions may get threatened The Marketing layoff was executed pretty haphazardly. All marketing strategy employees were laid off...and not one product marketing person? Hire mgmt consultants for this next time and be aware of political motivations. MGMT is Getting pretty cheap about the wrong things. HR is a bit sneaky, spin-doctor-y. They shifted a larger % or the equity portion of the bonus pool to tech workers from non-tech workers since the tech workers are harder to retain and recruit.
