Vantaggi
Remote work is nice, one of my managers was great - other managers ranged from "nice to talk to" and "what do you even do all day?" HR was also very helpful despite everything else. Expenses usually compensated after a bit of a delay. I also found my coworkers to be lovely overall, and will definitely be missed.
Svantaggi
Atrocious, insulting pay [35k/yr CAD after tax. This boils down to about $11/hr USD.) Was told within a week of starting by multiple coworkers at various levels of the company that I should start looking for other jobs as soon as I could. Found myself stuck in another country after receiving terrible information regarding remote work - information I was provided during the interview, and was part of the reason why I even signed up at that wage. Options were to fly back at my own expense, or be fired. I had communicated my intentions regarding this trip even during my interview, and multiple times before even booking a flight. No opportunity to learn, and you're penalized for slow days (which you do not have any control over.) Company is incredibly short-sighted and living on borrowed time. Ryan Vestby has no idea what he's doing and casually mentions that the company is bleeding money as part of a "joke." This is happening during layoffs. Constant fear of said layoffs, highly dysfunctional structure, nobody has any idea what they're doing and are constantly passing work to others as nobody was ever trained on what their job is. Company focuses on metrics above anything actually meaningful, and bills clients for services that they haven't offered in months. I had clients call confused, and genuinely asking if this was a real company or some form of scam operation. I have actively told friends who were interested in remote work to try other places.
