Pros
The company has solid platform offering some good enterprise features to support streaming applications. However, one critical shortcoming of the product is that it is designed for hard-core developers and therefore very hard to use for the non-technical folks in a organization. This has proven to be the showstopper for the market adoption and has been hurting the company's top and bottom line. Free lunch and snacks, flex schedule and other standard startup perks
Cons
This is so far the worst place I have worked at. The leadership team lacks the expertise in every aspect of the management principles and has set some bad examples for the company. Meetings are rarely held on-time; strategies are poorly communicated, changed constantly, and never being carried through execution. The founders have no clear vision on where the company is headed in this emerging and highly competitive market, allowing competitors to crush us and easily gain mindshare. The poor result also triggered quite tension internally, different teams started blaming each other over trivial stuff. Worse yet, not only do the founders have no clue on how to run a business, but they also surround themselves with equally incompetent people who are good at talking their way up to the food chain instead of delivering results, hence driving out many good folks who actually get job done and provide constructive feedback to the leadership team. The company's result speaks for itself: revenue is next to zero since the start of the year; high turnover in all departments; and the number of customers has stagnated since last fall. Advice for the job seekers: please please please do your home work before applying for career opportunity at this company, talk to not just one, but a few folks who used to work there to get a good picture on how it's like working at DataTorrent, see if you can get a consistent answer.
