Pros
... I'm trying not to sound hyperbolic or vicious or over the top or sarcastic in this review. I'm sure parts will come off that way anyway. I am trying to tell you, as a fellow user and reader of Glassdoor, in the strongest terms possible, that you almost certainly do not want to work for this company. Believe me, it would be better for my personal inner peace not to talk about or think about the leadership of this company at all; it is my hope that this will be the last time I'll need to. I would only recommend working at Blue Goji if you are a seriously codependent submissive masochist. Again, I realize that sounds like I'm making a joke or being a smartass. I am not. I mean that statement 100% literally.
Cons
Working at Blue Goji was pretty fun for quite a while. That was before the current CEO was CEO. He wasn't running things, and he didn't show up in person very often. He was still annoying, certainly; even then, he had a tendency to pop up after being silent for weeks, decide on the spot that he didn't like some body of work, or some decision that had been made long ago on which we had based large amounts of development, and veto it. (Even though technically at the time according to the corporate structure he had absolutely no authority to make business decisions directly, people have an annoying tendency to take orders from multi-millionaires.) Then we moved into the new (current, as far as I know) office, Mr. Fung was there every day, and things went downhill extremely rapidly. I left before Mr. Fung became CEO, but he essentially became in charge of everyone in the Austin office as soon as it opened. My departure was also before many of the most egregious tales of micromanagement described in the review "Serious Infrastructure Problems" occurred. I have received independent and more detailed confirmation that they did occur, however, and I certainly don't find them surprising. Stuff like that happened all the time. And yes, the office. The office is awful. It's like someone read the book _Peopleware_ or Joel Spolsky's article "A Field Guide to Developers" and then challenged themselves to design the absolute *worst* possible workplace for software developers to get anything done. ("Hey, here's an idea: why don't we not only not have private offices, but NOT EVEN HAVE CUBICLES? Brillant [sic], right?" "Well... I like it, but I think we can do better. Can we make the acoustics in the room really echoey so that anyone talking anywhere in the office is audible anywhere else and it sounds like it's been run through a reverb pedal?") Not to mention that it's just psychologically dehumanizing when your employer has you work in one corner of the warehouse he got to store his Ferraris; hard not to feel like you're just another one of his toys that he needs to put somewhere. There are other more minor negatives (like the location) about which I could grouse in more detail, but really the main problem is Mr. Fung. He seems to have these really specific ideas about how everything needs to work and cannot accept any deviation from that. Meanwhile, he doesn't understand the constraints of today's mobile technology; he thinks he does, but things have changed quite a bit since he made his millions in the early 80's. The sad thing, and the reason I felt obliged to write this review, is that if this were a more traditional startup that was bootstrapped or VC funded, poor management (not to mention poor marketing and a market space crowded with superior products) would have put this company out of business years ago. This abomination is just going to keep going as long as Mr. Fung insists on keeping it going. I know he's got recruiters aggressively trying to bring in more devs; I'm hoping to save a few of them from this.