Vantaggi
An incredible amount of ownership over your own projects and new projects. Technical team and engineers are great, collaborate well and generally produce great work. Testing on an autonomous vehicle is exciting and the work we do matters! The technical challenges are hard and the work is rewarding because of that. Quality of recent engineer hires has been extremely high. Great work life balance, I've taken a 2 week vacation and multiple 1-week or few day vacations this year. Founders, managers, individual contributors all take vacation and are vocal about having a balance. People work late but we have managed to avoid crazy hours like other startups I've been part of. No burnout. Light on meetings, a lot of respect for engineering time.
Svantaggi
Disorganized communication at times, both top down from management and bottom up from individual contributors to other teams. Growing pains with going from 16 people to 40 people in a year. We haven't paid for slack pro yet and I'm tired of losing discussions to the 10k message history limit. Office can be a little loud.