Vantaggi
Great culture across the team members. Smart people, fun to work with, balanced and supportive. Remote working environment is really flexible, and issues you work on are very interesting.
Svantaggi
Company has grown, and in material ways it does not work as described in "How we work at DuckDuckGo." There is a hierarchy in decision making, there are people who function as managers, and many decisions are made by a few people, often without the participation of people who are responsible for the work. There are systemic issues with compensation and how promotions (which is the only avenue for career growth/professional level increases) are made, so for most people, where they enter is where they will be forever, or for a very, very long time. Expertise and experience outside of product work is not deemed of much value. Leadership refuses to acknowledge change is needed in several areas due to belief that doing things differently would "destroy the culture." The result is certain topics are off limits for questioning assumptions, even when problems are evident, and overall there is very rigid thinking which leads to very little or very slow change for a company that needs to be innovative.