Startup on the Verge of Collapse - Anonymous employee Azuqua Employee Review

First the pros - Azuqua has put in the hard work to invest in people over the past year and it shows. They are actively engaged in ensuring that team members are happy, challenged, and growing across the organization. Highlights: - Active and Helpful HR Team - Free snacks and drinks (including Kombucha and Beer on tap) - Free lunch on Friday - Lots of Nerf guns - Open minds - even in leadership - 401k and Healthcare - Work from home policy - Improved system for 1:1s and reviews The office features a beautiful view of Elliott Bay, which is amazingly relaxing!

There are not a lot of cons, which is great. Here are two that I'd offer: One potential con could be on you - the job candidate. "Startup" means that you'll experience frequent change. If you're not ok with that, make sure to talk with your hiring manager and others in the company before accepting a position! Other than this, networking bandwidth is a serious problem that affects day-to-day work.

Very smart engineering and marketing/customer advocate staff. Beautiful view in the entire office. JS stack mostly. Free snacks. Business class Orca card.

Provided Healthcare is only subsidized, not free. Ridiculous unsustainable microservice "architecture": don't worry about design, just make a new service. No testing, docs, or examples for the most part (plenty of RANDOM 1 line readmes though). Bus factor of 1 - knowledge is localized to each employee, so good luck building a new project that uses 10 microservices and none of them have a robust API or docs - better hope the person who built it isn't out sick that day! Euphemisms for policies meant to hide the fading "startup culture". Inexplicable and inefficient management of engineers. Employee Equity as listed on job sites never comes up, so your salary is your salary.