Pros
- Great work environment, reasonable hours, cool office surrounded by other startups - Some fantastic people in sales, marketing and implementation and HR - Pay is good (considering current tech market drought). Benefits are top notch. - Founders are very different from each other but I liked them and felt they were generally fair. The company is small so decisions are made quickly which can be both exciting and scary at the same time.
Cons
Only a few and depending on which department you're in, they may not directly affect you... yet. The main problem here is in product and because this will ultimately affect everyone in the company, I write this review: Everyone on the current product team is fairly new to product or new to Neighborly which isn't bad in of itself but it necessitates a strong experienced product leader which Neighborly does not have. Here's what they have: 1. The head of product is a seemingly nice person who wants to make you feel like they can be trusted. Tread carefully here. I will say they're very friendly so that's a plus. 2. This person has the remarkable talent of being able to talk forever without really saying anything except, 'right?!' 10,000 times. Not a whole lot of very meaningful, directional or helpful dialog comes out of lengthy meetings. 3. Product mgt meetings are scheduled by this person to talk about best practices with no agenda, no actual content and so they have to rely on other senior PMs with actual product experience to drive these types of meetings 3. This person is rarely online and team members aren't exactly sure what they do. 4. Prioritization is a joke. The person seems to say yes to everything (not really everything but you get the jist) and then ask PMs to prioritize- I would and present my top 3, they would agree then I got buy in from all other executive stakeholders and we all signed off. The head of product would come to me the next day and ask the status of some old thing that wasn't on the list or even a high priority and I'm like, 'whaaat?' Lol 5. This person does not appear to have significant experience in product or Agile and while I'm sure is talented in many other things, this role is too critical to not be sharper in the practice area of product management. Lastly, a senior pm in this role will have to be very careful to not step on the head of product's toes because you'll start doing what the head should be doing and junior PMs will need to rely on senior pms... IMO of course