Pros
- the people who work there are amazing and fun, but smart. Definitely live by "play hard". Some of my favorite people I've ever worked with. - tech and product are cool
Cons
- product is visibly losing it's market share to other competitors and still struggles to find P/M fit. No innovation at this point - the product is basically just playing catch up. Product team clearly struggling to make the right decisions on what to build and focus on next. Losing existing customers and struggling to find more while sales teams try to shove the same product down everyone's throats and try to convince them to buy Amperity. The company is really blind to it's flaws and keeps pushing a false narrative to it's own employees that it's the best. No real path to IPO, will probably be acquired - Management is incredibly toxic with unreasonable expectations to deliver with little to no guidance while not even having their own stuff together. They're always pulling the "well it's a startup" card even though they've been around for 7 years with a Series D valuation as justification as to why you're failing, or are not a good fit, and it'll never be anyone else's fault except yours. Your manager will drag you down with them, and it will ultimately be you who's affected. - If there's anything wrong with your performance, management will not say anything until you're basically pushed out the door, given no real chance for improvement. They struggle with having active conversations on expectations and performance, and choose to just get rid of someone instead of working on improvement together. The "we're a family" values are pretty much just for show when it actually gets ugly. - Leadership doesn't even reach out to you at all anymore, and the company is genuinely losing the endearments of a startup and replacing it with the worst parts of bureaucracy. - there's definitely favoritism towards certain employees who can never do wrong, and the nepotism is strong.
