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Pros
Great people, flexibility, good benefits and compensation
Cons
It was an amazing company until the leadership changed. Since then, the company has gone through two layoffs and lacks a well-structured goal for the future.
Pros
When I started there, and for a good portion of my time there, we had a phenomenal team and I very much enjoyed working there. There still remains a handful of excellent employees that would be thrilled to work with again. The pay and benefits are good.
Cons
When I started, the company actually felt like a team. My direct manager was fantastic, and all of the peers on my team were equally fantastic. We genuinely cared about each other. Among many of the non-leadership employees, those sentiments remained. But, unfortunately, leadership prioritized this less and less over time—opting instead to treat everyone like a faceless, soulless number with a ranking. The entire time I was there, employee turnover was always concerningly high. In my just shy of two years there, I'd estimate that we had around 50 employees leave (including both quitting and being fired). 50! Mind you, the size of the company when I started was only about 30, and currently sits at about 45. I'd never experienced anything like it before. In fact, I discussed the issue with three C-suite members of our leadership team. They seemed unconcerned. Then at the end of 2024, they laid off about 25% of the company, including about 65% of the product/engineering staff. Mind you, this is a software company, with basically no remaining employees to...build software. In the wake of that, the engineering staff continued to dwindle even further. By the time I left, there were exactly two engineers remaining (with a combined 14 months of tenure at the company), a single product manager, no product designers, and because all of the engineering staff who had any long-term domain knowledge had left, the entirety of the domain knowledge went with them. At our peak, we had about 10 engineering folks and about 5 product folks. It became more and more clear during my last 6 months there that the only thing they were interested in is hitting arbitrary revenue goals to inflate the perceived value of the company so that the company could be sold. The employees simply became a means to an end for the benefit of a select few folks who had equity in the company. The stellar quarter-over-quarter and year-over-year growth (that would have been enviable by any other company) that the company achieved was glossed over in update meetings, with the focus always being on how badly we were missing our long-term targets. Early on, I would have been happy to recommend this company. In fact, I did and we hired one of the people to whom I recommended the company. Unfortunately, I can no longer recommend the company.
Pros
When I started there, and for a good portion of my time there, we had a phenomenal team and I very much enjoyed working there. There still remains a handful of excellent employees that would be thrilled to work with again. The pay and benefits are good.
Cons
When I started, the company actually felt like a team. My direct manager was fantastic, and all of the peers on my team were equally fantastic. We genuinely cared about each other. Among many of the non-leadership employees, those sentiments remained. But, unfortunately, leadership prioritized this less and less over time—opting instead to treat everyone like a faceless, soulless number with a ranking. The entire time I was there, employee turnover was always concerningly high. In my just shy of two years there, I'd estimate that we had around 50 employees leave (including both quitting and being fired). 50! Mind you, the size of the company when I started was only about 30, and currently sits at about 45. I'd never experienced anything like it before. In fact, I discussed the issue with three C-suite members of our leadership team. They seemed unconcerned. Then at the end of 2024, they laid off about 25% of the company, including about 65% of the product/engineering staff. Mind you, this is a software company, with basically no remaining employees to...build software. In the wake of that, the engineering staff continued to dwindle even further. By the time I left, there were exactly two engineers remaining (with a combined 14 months of tenure at the company), a single product manager, no product designers, and because all of the engineering staff who had any long-term domain knowledge had left, the entirety of the domain knowledge went with them. At our peak, we had about 10 engineering folks and about 5 product folks. It became more and more clear during my last 6 months there that the only thing they were interested in is hitting arbitrary revenue goals to inflate the perceived value of the company so that the company could be sold. The employees simply became a means to an end for the benefit of a select few folks who had equity in the company. The stellar quarter-over-quarter and year-over-year growth (that would have been enviable by any other company) that the company achieved was glossed over in update meetings, with the focus always being on how badly we were missing our long-term targets. Early on, I would have been happy to recommend this company. In fact, I did and we hired one of the people to whom I recommended the company. Unfortunately, I can no longer recommend the company.