Pros
- Tons of business potential with the features being developed and with the connections Nav has developed within the industry. - Nice tech stack. - The unlimited PTO is super rad.
Cons
- Unpopular but valid opinions and concerns are suppressed (sometimes to the point of the person expressing it getting let go or quitting) creating a culture where people are afraid to start discussions or ask questions. - A lot of inexperienced managers (Not all of them are bad though). - Not much follow through on new features. The moment it gets released the new feature gets forgotten about and no one owns maintaining it. Rarely is there time spent validating if the feature improves metrics or updating it based on user feedback. - Related to the previous point, there isn't much data backing priorities. A lot of halfbaked 'great' ideas come down from upper management and become the next high priority thing that needs to be released ASAP but they don't have any data to back up that their 'great' idea will actually improve key metrics. - When they did the layoffs they laid off top performers instead of some non-productive employees. Layoffs also happened the week after the company meeting where they said things were going well. And the "hiring during covid" hashtag isn't something to be proud of when you just prematurely let a good portion of the company go. - The company's long term vision seems to change directions every six months. - Way too many required meetings that get you nowhere. Never enough time to actually produce.