Pros
- Competitive pay - depending on where you are located
- Fully remote
- Unlimited PTO (though inconsistent in practice)
- $500/year learning stipend
- Office closed between Christmas and New Year's
- Supportive managers and teammates, though many have since left or been laid off
- Experience varies a lot by team - some pockets of the company are genuinely great
*I've been gone for a while, so I do not know what is still around or not*
Cons
- Leadership is out of touch with day-to-day employee reality
- There's a strong emphasis on titles and hierarchy. Disagreements over exact wording have escalated to HR, which reflects the internal culture around status and recognition
- Strong pedigree bias — heavy weight given to prestigious schools and "ex-Google/ex-[competitor]" backgrounds; be prepared to feel looked down on if you don't have that on your resume or miss out on growth opportunities because of it.
- DEI was a visible priority around 2020-2021 but has quietly faded; HR doesn't have the bandwidth to drive it even if leadership wanted to
- Favoritism toward certain teams (and frustration with others) was often obvious in company-wide meetings
- Town halls can feel more like performative devotion to the mission than genuine culture
- Pressure to appear "dedicated" shades into guilt around burnout and unsustainable deadlines
- Competitive "do whatever it takes" edge creates a stressful, sometimes desperate environment ahead of layoffs
- Repeated layoffs framed as "best for the business" don't match the mission-driven, people-first messaging
Bottom line: the company itself is fairly mediocre and clearly wants to be the next big tech unicorn. There is nothing wrong with that ambition, but don't dress it up as a mission worth guilt-tripping employees over.