Pros
- INCREDIBLE people - Finally starting to increase technical compensation (after massive turnover) - Great starting point to get a very high level exposure to a variety of industries/ML concepts.
Cons
- Beware the 5 star reviews. - If you're a minority be prepared to be tokenized and pulled in as the DE&I spokesperson for your specific identity. - Complete lack of executive support for DE&I efforts. - Company refuses to define SOPs and policies. Their only policy is "no policies". Failed experiment in libertarianism. - Company repeatedly fires entire teams (happened twice) to slightly change how the team operates. - Leadership is unresponsive to suggestions. If you speak up and have different opinions from the executive, you're labeled as "negative" and fired. - Lack of a real technical practice and community. Most senior staff have left the company along with their expertise. - Lack of technical practice & staff means projects suffer with interns being promoted directly into lead/management "type" roles. - Good luck finding time to improve and grow (100% allocations on projects). No interest in providing professional development time or policies, it's "figure it out yourself without looking like you're slacking". - No lateral movement unless you threaten to quit. - Company refuses to take a risk on current employees, more comfortable hiring outside for new and interesting positions. - Company is more comfortable firing people instead of working with them to improve/resolve issues. - Company is more interested in chasing the shiny product "carrot" instead of improving & investing in client project delivery - You will burn out.
