Pros
The people at Stytch really made my experience working there great. The bar for engineers was high, so people were given a good amount of autonomy while learning a lot from others. The projects were fulfilling and there’s a lot of collaboration with different teams and functions. Work life balance was kind of what you made of it. There were people working a lot of hours, but management wasn’t pressuring it. PTO was encouraged and respected.
Cons
Leadership and management was all pretty new to the roles. There were frequent priority changes and the (struggling) sales team had many strategy changes and turnover. On the business side, there seemed to be some petty layoffs over disagreements. Stock options were pretty worthless since their series B was at such a crazy valuation. I really hoped they repriced and issued new options to their employees. This one is more personal, but I was laid off and was disappointed that nobody from management or leadership reached out. Just notified by email. I thought we had a better relationship than that. I’m putting ”no” for “Recommend to a friend?” because of the stock options and the struggling sales. This could have changed, so make your own decision based on the information you can get. Otherwise, I would have put “yes.”