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These comments are from a year ago and with respect to the author and their feelings at that time, we have worked hard to build a strong, happy team and so I'm going to talk more about the situation today, for the sake of other people who reach this review.
On work/life balance: some of us work from home, some leave at 5:30 every day and a few will stick around to 7 / 7:30 on a regular basis. We have a lot of family people and are exceptionally relaxed about random days/mornings/evenings off for kids/deliveries/sick pets/personal stuff. We have processes and a technical operations team so that we're not firefighting: which means that if people are around in the evening it's because they are working on something interesting, not because they are forced to.
On turn over, some stats: nobody has left by choice or been fired from the engineering team in 12 months (zero turnover for over a year, although an intern went back to school). 8 of the engineering team have been with us over a year. Only two of the engineers would want a visa transfer to leave, but we would argue that nobody at the standard we hire is shackled (I'd hire either of them on visa transfer in a heartbeat). These are meaningful statistics given the market for engineering talent (and we do have talent).
The tech is still awesome (thanks for that) but we're much less "startup" and much more mature in process. We have added structure on a management level, with a new COO and Product manager joining to add process and definition to operations and product, so that we can all be more effective.
With all that, we're not done and will continue to mature, but we're putting a huge amount of thought towards maintaining a happy team and enabling everyone to be their best. The outlook is indeed positive!
Best,
Kevin
