Vantaggi
Many of the reviews on Glassdoor for CHIMP are extreme, either positive or negative. I hope I can deliver a balanced review that reflects my year plus experience at CHIMP. --- The vision at CHIMP is excellent. There is a clear vision, it's been well thought out and aligns to CHIMP's "why." In the time that I was there the communication of the vision was consistent and clear. In my experience, not many companies have this. What CHIMP is trying to accomplish is noble and pure. If you want to have a positive impact on the world with your work, CHIMP is a great place to be. The people are great, everyone I met wants to take CHIMP further and are very kind. The standard of quality at CHIMP is very high. If you want to be pushed to produce your best work, CHIMP is possibly an attractive place for you.
Svantaggi
There are too many silos within the teams. In the 14 months, I was there; there was little collaboration between teams. Departments, especially Design, worked within silos keeping work secretive and opaque. There was little to no feedback in 14 months. They implemented a quarterly feedback system, but despite investing time and effort into it, my managers did nothing with it. As I alluded to in the title, CHIMP is an excellent place for specific roles. CSM, Marketing, Finance If you're in Customer Succes, Marketing or Finance CHIMP might be an excellent place for you. Design For Design, I think it would depend on what you want from a team and the experience. If you want to work with a cross-functional team and collaborate with Product, Engineering and other groups this might not be for you. If your goal is to work with a high performing Design team and want to spend the majority of your time working with other designers, then this might be the right team for you. Product & Engineering For Product and Engineering (in Vancouver), I would avoid CHIMP. At the time I left there was no clear vision for Product or Engineering within the Vancouver office. Leadership are focused on a more waterfall approach to product development. Most of the product and engineering team is in India, so there's a 12-hour timezone challenge.