Vantaggi
- Good work life balance being a remote employee - Got to travel to beer fest and meetups - Was excited to work in beer tech industry - Founder (App) was passionate about the app users and its community - Great small team I worked with and was excited to work under the current VP of Product - Gained some good experience working on the app
Svantaggi
- No room to move up or increase compensation. At first I thought compensation was good but as I was leaving found out I was being paid about 25% less the average designer. - Company doesn't have an understanding of design or its value. Designers were originally left off of org chart because they forgot about the 2 designers they had. - As a designer be ready to wear many hats. I was hired as a product designer but asked to do everything from branding, to marketing, social media, frontend dev and whatever else that came up. Had to do so much there was never really enough time or resources to produce meaningful and quality design work. - Was told design team would grow but never added another designer in the 2 years I was there beside backfilling a role after the first designer left. - New Engineering process they put in place basically pushed designers from their teams and never gave designers the time to put in quality user research or establish a design process. - Not much innovation in the products