Vantaggi
- My work-life balance is very good here, probably better than any other tech company I've worked at in the Bay Area. - I have been given the opportunity to move around within the engineering organization when I've asked to do so, even to roles in which I had little prior experience. I have found DocuSign to be very willing to invest in my growth and success; the company seems to really see it as investing in its own success, which is rare and refreshing. - I get to work on and help build software that facilitates commerce, and positively impacts the lives of many people. This is a big deal to me personally; there are plenty of companies looking to make a quick buck by building trivial, derivative garbage and then getting acquired; Docusign is not one of those companies in my view. - When I tell people where I work, the reaction is almost always positive toward the product. I take pride in that.
Svantaggi
- From where I sit, it is a very top-heavy organization. There are executives who were added in the last 2-3 years whose actual roles and contributions I couldn't even hazard a guess at. Their titles seem to be a handful of important-sounding business words randomly thrown together, and I presume their actual contributions to be of similar depth and necessity. - I still feel that DocuSign is more a sales-focused organization than an engineering-focused one. Some may not see this as a negative, but I certainly do. - The anticipated IPO was used as a carrot to entice potential employees as long as three and a half years ago, and still is not imminent, AFAIK. Lots of pre-IPO companies do this, especially in tech, but that doesn't make it any less distasteful. Additionally, there is a fair amount of secrecy and even duplicity around it, which I find to be both unnecessary and counterproductive.
