Great people and interesting work, but can be intense at times - Recensione dipendente - Applied AI analyst presso Zello

- Mature but agile: you get to bring value to a vast amount of customers while having little or no barriers in your way - Breadth of customers: from a strong suit of F500 companies like Sam's club to a steady stream of up and coming companies from all over the world. This breadth makes it possible to work on a very diverse set of data challenges. - Strong data stack: a great selection of foundational technologies like Snowflake and dbt with many components of modern data stack that give you time to spend on important and motivating goals and not mundane tasks - Very welcoming and productive team, motivated to be collaborative and united on the vision. - The office is located in a great area in West Austin and has a great view. All basic amenities are checked, including a generous educational allowance and support for learning at industry conferences. Great benefits!

The app and the industry is a pretty involved B2B product, so it takes time to explore and learn all the nuances — months to some extent. Get ready for that!

Some talented individuals in the ranks, but they often leave. Flexible work arrangements sometimes, but morale makes this irrelevant. Product has potential, but leadership hampers progress. Good paternity leave - 4 weeks time off. Offsite Hackathons every year.

Chronic layoffs. Despite being over a decade old, Zello still operates like a shaky startup with no clear direction. Layoffs are frequent, with false reassurances from leadership after every round. Minimal equity. Offers little in terms of equity, and the refreshing program introduced last year is negligible and feels like an afterthought. They will tell you that this is how all start ups work. Poor leadership. The executive team lacks a clear strategy and micromanages daily operations across engineering, product, and sales, creating bottlenecks and inefficiencies. CEO tells to developers and product how to write the code (mostly in a hacky way). CTO constantly micromanages daily. Toxic work environment. Long-term employees seem resistant to change and actively undermine new hires, making it impossible to create meaningful impact. Hacky solutions. Pressure to deliver quickly leads to buggy products and endless cycles of patching and rework. Lack of vision. No clear strategy for the company’s future, just reactive measures and hollow promises.