Vantaggi
- Lots of ownership opportunities. Good for new grads, interns, people who want to gain more experience - Lunch/snacks catered - Most people in the trenches are smart, kind and funny. Hard to leave them - Healthcare is booming! Easy to get excited about and lots of people feel connected to the mission - Solid benefits. Pay for a lot of positions was solid too, though still on the lower end relative to the bay/company size - Office was pet friendly
Svantaggi
- everyone is spread super thin despite being a large company. At a company of over 1000 employees, how are there 1 or 2 person teams? Make it make sense - The loudest voice in the room often wins, regardless of what they are saying. I had several late nights due to pressure from management, and sometimes the thing I was working on wouldn’t even end up being that important. There was nothing in place to prevent this kind of waste from happening, resulting in several useless meetings and poor product decisions. - Super corporate culture that masquerades as a startup. Long meetings, metrics and processes are introduced without consideration of if they are needed. By the time you question it, a new meeting/process/metric has been instituted. It all just gets in the way and makes the job harder. - Company is hodgepodge of multiple companies and products. Each with its own culture, standards. Can result in tension + resentment between teams. - Playbook from the top seems to be: ask employees to do near impossible tasks, hope they bail out management. - Even if you try and ignore the pressure, your body will know. I and others had health issues pop up once we started working here. This is when I knew it was time to go. your life is worth more. - Claims to be anti-corporate, but politics reign supreme. New hires with a friend at the company are often treated better, while someone new or earlier in their career has to prove themselves. Employees needing an H1B were also treated worse. - Company was like a dysfunctional relationship. You can manage for a while, but it will be more stress than it’s worth. Best move is to just leave - Leadership was just really really really rude. Even the top performers were talked down to, belittled, minimized. Felt so silly and unserious I found that managers broadly fit into one of 3 categories: 1. Super strong individual contributors (ICs) that got promoted into management, but suck with people. EQ is nonexistent and they have probably never played a team sport in their life. Would be best for these managers to go back to being ICs and be left alone to do their work and maximize their skillset. Really big ego, and pretty shady too. Outwardly doing a lot of grandstanding while doing some pretty unethical stuff behind the scenes. Some of the actions from these managers would be fireable offenses had they been more public. 2. Managers with prior management experience at a different company, but lack the context or culture fit to succeed here. These people are nice, but their team has to work a lot more to cover up their shortcomings 3. Managers who have decent domain knowledge and are good with people. This is where you want to be. Some of them are first time managers, but it doesn’t matter. They know what they don’t know, and more importantly they treat people with respect.