Software Engineering for the brave - Recensione dipendente - Software Engineer presso Vaticle

Vaticle is a very personable company where the top officers are interested and involved in the success of both their company and the community around them. Building a community of users and technical experts around graph analytics has always been at the core of this company and I expect it will continue to be. Currently, I work as a Data Science Contractor for Vaticle doing custom graph database buildouts for top-tier clients. I think my experience with Vaticle is best demonstrated by a brief story of how I started working with Vaticle and how the relationship has grown. I first met the co-founders Haikal Pribadi (CEO) and Tomás Sabat (COO) at Graph Day 2017. After recognizing a common passion for data encoded in graphs we embarked on collaborative work analyzing PubMed medical literature. Since that time our relationship has grown and they have contracted my group to do a number of buildouts in a variety of domains including bioinformatics food science and cyber security. These buildouts have not only been a source of revenue but also an opportunity for my group to contribute and practice applying graph algorithms in bioinformatics, my domain of expertise. Working with Vaticle has contributed substantially to my growth as a Data Scientist and the growth of my company. They are always available to help and they know their business.

There are very few cons. The only issue I see is that Vaticle is a small startup. This is both a pro and a con, depending on the goals and personality of each employee. Workers need to be flexible, wear many hats, and understand the business thoroughly in order to contribute optimally. Having said that, the company is growing and I expect that it will take on more of the structured aspects of a larger company as it grows.

During my job search, my top concern was finding a place that takes technical work seriously. Vaticle meets and goes beyond my expectations of working at a deep tech company. Being able to work on something seriously technical with real users is scary but inspires ambition. Being a junior engineer at Vaticle is fantastic. The culture is heavily office-first, which is a boon to those early on in their career - I get daily exposure to senior and staff engineers and regularly have my designs and ideas tested by a group of engineers with a massive combined wealth of experience. The team all have great chemistry and outside of strictly work-related matters, with thought-provoking conversation on a range of topics over lunch every day. All the equipment (laptops, monitors, other computing resources) is fantastic and top of the line. The stringent hiring process is a blessing once you're on the other side of it. I'd recommend Vaticle to any of my friends or peers on the condition that they were serious about challenging and growing their teamworking and technical skillset.

Vaticle is a startup and that comes with tradeoffs. Everyone's time is at a premium - sometimes interesting and potentially useful but non-critical work is put on the backburner. I expect that this will change as Vaticle grows. If you feel that certain work is below or above your station you should expect to have those notions challenged.