Fun, growing company - Senior Software Engineer Drop Employee Review

5.0
Oct 30, 2015
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Pros

The engineering team is still small (12 devs) because I can get to know everyone a little bit. Still lots of room for good engineers to get in here and show people how stuff is done. Definitely a casual, SF startup-style culture in eng. WFH is allowed when needed, it's more about contribution than butts in seats. I like that the devs aren't responsible for pushing features that make the day-to-day dollars, that's the responsibility of the buying team who runs all of the deals. That leaves engineers to build without many interruptions (of course bugs and incidents still happen and interrupt people's work). Company seems to be doing well in a space that other startups have failed in lately. Friday (and sometimes Thursday) happy hours and lots of board games on-hand to play and people to play with.

Cons

For me it's mostly the general startup concerns about being able to grow the company. We have a plan, it might work or it might not. Compared to some of the big or even medium companies the perks aren't that good. Lunches only provided on Wednesday but dinner is free nightly and usually arrives sometime between 6-6:30pm. Sometimes the beer keg isn't replaced for a long time and you have to buy your own for a while. Salary is a little below market for engineering, though you do expect that in startups a bit.

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5.0
Jan 12, 2020
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Pros

Company culture, especially on the finance and operations team is really good. They hired an experienced CFO and I've had a lot of opportunities for growing my role. I've had a lot of support in moving to a role that I really like and changed fields to find what I really want to do.

Cons

Sometimes you have to wear many hats

4.0
Apr 16, 2024
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Pros

Smart people who know their subject matter

Cons

Maturity as a company is behind most.

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