Pros
- Friendly people - Start-up energy & openness to new ideas
Cons
- It was amatuer hour on the tech side. All the most experienced people move on to better opportunities quickly, because people don't tolerate the nonsense when they know what a well-run tech organization looks like. - Sales people sell the wrong thing, or things that don't exist (too often with the support of tech managers), forcing tech teams to hack together poorly conceived deliverables in unreasonable timelines. - Managers use the "but we're a start-up" excuse to pressure people into working long hours to cover for their planning failures. I saw this happen especially to junior people who don't have the experience or confidence to push back, and the smartest ones left for better treatment.