Vantaggi
On the engineering side, we work with the best and still very humble individuals. The founders and CTO are still very hands on in design and implementation, even our Toronto team meets them weekly . The company values product and operational quality, we hence invest lots of time to get the things right. Still, we are moving fast (although it doesn't feel like this) and have a really bold vision especially for the app platform and Enterprise AI. The Snowflake-as-a-product is loved by customers, it's pleasant to hear it when you tell people you're from Snowflake. There's good balance of top-down and bottoms-up management to avoid politics, have a shared vision and preserve team autonomy.
Svantaggi
At times, processes tend to be heavy. Internal dev infra isn't great, but being improved. As a relatively young company, we're often intuition-based rather than data-driven in decision making.