Vantaggi
Simon has some of the smartest and best individual contributors to work with. These are people who are friendly, kind, and are always willing to help and lend a hand.
Svantaggi
Simon was a great place to work but that isn’t true anymore. Simon as a company has had a rocky last few years including several large rounds of layoffs, losing multiple large clients, and rebuilding the core of the product with an engineering team that is a shell of its former self. Simon’s biggest problem is ineffective leadership who are out of touch with what is happening in the day to day work and/or are unfit to be in leadership. When leadership rolls out changes (which happens often) they do such a poor job on the roll out and communication that it leaves everyone confused and frustrated. People start questioning why these changes are happening, what are the benefits, and how did they arrive at this decision. Additionally, Simon’s engineering culture has fallen apart and become a negative environment due to current leaderships consistently bad decisions. It is common knowledge amongst individual contributors across departments that engineering leadership is notoriously poor. Lastly, Simon’s short term business health is extremely uncertain and they face large challenges both internally and in a very saturated and competitive marketing tech space where there are already clear winners who are outperforming Simon. Company morale is at an all time low with no signs of improving, I would not recommend to join Simon now.