Inspiring mission and overall a great place to work - Engineer Upwork Employee Review

5.0
Oct 17, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

This is a company with a super inspiring mission that's genuinely trying to make the world a better place, and the success of the company is directly tied to the extent to which it's able to achieve that mission. Good work-life balance, facilitated by things like WFH Wednesdays and a relatively flexible remote work policy. The leadership team is highly committed to the company's mission, and you can see that through their words and actions every day. The CEO keeps reiterating that our goal is to "do well by doing good." The Engineering organization, in particular has made remarkable strides in the past few years. In many places, we're using the latest and greatest technologies and architecture patterns, and in most of the areas where we're not, we have concrete plans to start doing so soon. While there's always room to improve, we're on a great trajectory.

Cons

Compensation could be higher. I expect this to improve in the near future, now that the company is public. Some teams, especially outside of engineering, could do a better job of monitoring and pruning low performers.

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