Vantaggi
Quality coworkers Facilities in line with mid-tier tech companies Company culture promotes branching out, growing up and out of role Successful company, lots of potential, competitive in market Making efforts to increase diversity in workforce Some attempts at consistent company-wide strategy, mission, communication
Svantaggi
Compensation lower than other companies competing for same candidates Same "leader worship" found at other founder-led companies Marketing efforts to recruit sales-types are a turn-off for serious engineers PTO policy bundling sick and vacation, along with inconsistent policies among teams re wfh, are inviting a lawsuit at worst and mass flu transmission at best Engineers spend too much of their time maintaining a massive code base with significant tech debt "Transparency" seems to only apply to company desire to control students and recent grads and doesn't result in insight into executive deliberations and decisions, including promotions and compensation Team-based incentives conflict with "One Team" motto Recent push toward specialization is accelerating already-existing duplicate efforts and inefficient siloing across teams and offices Efforts to improve diversity in hiring aren't coupled with efforts to keep diverse employees; maternity/paternity/family leave policies are reactionary and lagging