Pros
good health insurance weekends off pretty flexible if you need a few hours off great work equipment onboarding was as-expected for a startup
Cons
Don’t Get Caught Up In The Illusion It’s important for you to know that most of the positive reviews on here are written by employees who have been around for less than 2 months, that’s why the reviews are so vague with few examples. When I first joined Tailwind I was also fooled by the illusion of this nicely curated glassdoor page and a job description that was the opposite of everything at Tailwind. I’m sharing my review to help others see the reality of this company before deciding to accept an offer. You Cannot Solve The Bias Here I’m not sure what’s worse, our leader referring to George Floyd protestors “looters and rioters” on an open DEI slack channel a few days after GF’s murder, or the years he spent arguing with employees to keep the product name “Tribes”. If you’re looking for an inclusive workplace where DEI is the bare minimum, I recommend you find another company, because bringing up DEI at Tailwind is grounds for retaliation from those leading the company — they will block your career growth. Low Empathy For Employees Employees are, at best, treated like machines — especially those in product or engineering. There is no standard for how people should be spoken to or treated in meetings by their peers or those higher up. yelling is common practice up and down the org due to a particular leader, PMs don’t collaborate - they steamroll, and engineers get so burnt out that they have emotional breakdowns and eventually leave (i’ve seen it happen many times over the years). Nothing you say or do can change this, because it’s entrenched in the culture and pushed even harder by middle-management. Products That Launch Slow — Or Never At All The projects deployed at Tailwind are simply too large in scope to begin with so they take forever to complete, and they aren’t thoroughly researched first so their likelihood of failure is high (decisions are often made on gut instincts, not actual data). It’s common to spend 4-8 months on a project that at worst gets thrown away by upper management, and at best doesn’t meet QA standards and makes users extremely angry. Most of the practices one learns at Tailwind are maladaptive and will hurt their career in the long run.