Vantaggi
Phenomenal people, interesting work, and (usually) challenging in a good way. Company is finally focusing on going deep & wide with its approach to improving the offering instead of just wide. Starting to feel more like a genuine security company rather than a customer acquisition company that happens to sell a security product on the side. And even at this stage of that transition its already a noticeably and significantly more robust offering than competitors. I may not agree with all decisions (who ever does?) but I do have faith backed by plenty of evidence that the Sr leaders making them are competent and capable which goes a long way to staying engaged.
Svantaggi
Ive survived multiple internal restructures, 1-2 rounds of RIFs, multiple overnights, huge amounts of project and team thrash, and some absolutely bonkers deadlines and expectations for teams/people that are completely unprepared to meet them. The company is now old enough for The Peter Principle to be starting to show up. Its not horrible, and not in my BU, but I see it. Almost everything bad you have heard about hyper-growth VC backed bay are startups can be (or is) true at Vanta. Workload, office politics, high expectations with iffy rewards, inconsistent management, chasing shiny things, etc. The saving grace to that is that leadership knows and usually tries to address the issues proactively instead of ignoring them.