Vantaggi
Bonuses. If they still plan to give them... Now that the company is public, they've been cutting all costs, especially when it comes to employee retention.
Svantaggi
There is absolutely no work-life balance. If you have kids, I hope you have a very understanding partner who is ready to be the sole caregiver. You'll be "on call" at all hours. And daily calls with China are expected, helping to stretch the 9-5 workday into something more like 7am-10pm. Back-to-back meetings while also managing my actual massive work load is the norm. My daily schedule is so intense that many days I feel lucky to go to the bathroom or eat lunch. But every week I learn of a new project/requirment/task that has been shifted onto my plate as a product developer to add to the daily frenzy. The culture is one of the most toxic I've ever encountered. Leadership wants you to be "outrageously extraordinary," which is their fun cult language for demanding the impossible. They'll demand downright impossible timelines, but everyone is too terrified to disagree. So we sprint hard every day for a year to create some subpar appliance that goes to production with a myriad of issues that we don't have time to solve. In the end, everyone is so burned out that they stop caring altogether. I've never seen such an incredible level of micromanagement from a CEO before. There is no trust. And although we do so much consumer insights work, one word from Mark and the whole project changes to be what he wants, not what the consumer needs. He could cause months of work to be thrown out the window so that the team has to start from scratch, but STILL maintain the original deadline. This causes so many mistakes, miscommunication, and issues with production that are then blamed squarely on you. This is truly the loneliest place to work. Your schedule is usually all-consuming. There is no time for getting to know coworkers or counterparts, and there is no team bonding, although maybe some trauma bonding. You will be glued to your desk on teams meetings or scrambling to get everything done (which, again, is impossible, but you try desperately anyway). People are too busy to care about you, and eventually, you start to feel the same. When you start to realize you've turned into a person you hate - bitter, angry, judgmental, uncaring, and exhausted - you'll start becoming successful at SharkNinja. But is it worth it?