Mixpanel Reviews

Pros

TLDR: I would not take a 30% raise to work somewhere else right now. People The people here are smart, nice, and motivated -- it's just fun to come into work every day. There's a culture of being generous, both with time and trust. Management With recent changes, management has become much more bottom-up. People are trusted and empowered, and the role of management is to provide direction/vision and remove blockers....

Cons

There would have been a list of items here ~6 months ago, but honestly we've addressed all of them. I would say one thing: If you want to coast, this is not the time to join Mixpanel. The road to success will take time, creativity, and grit to succeed, but I'm confident we have the team and focus to do it.

Advice to Management

Keep up the momentum!

Pros

Friendly people, lunch about every day, snacks...

Cons

Communication from top to bottom...

Advice to Management

More support towards other teams and the way communication happens when major changes happen...

Pros

Mixpanel is an entirely different company than a year ago. We’re listening to customer feedback but also balancing the basics with innovation. The new leadership team is seasoned and knows what they’re doing. Even more importantly, they’re humble and open-minded. Everyone makes bad decisions sometimes, but instead of acting like they never happened, the execs discuss learnings from the big ones at company all hands. ...

Cons

The only negative at the moment is that the passion everyone has for the company and work can translate into long work days at times. Leadership is generally good at promoting internally, so there’s a payoff if you do well. Also, a larger amount of interesting and meaningful work beats being just another employee at a non-growth company, but that’s of course a personal preference and may not fit everyone.

Pros

People are great. The new leaders seem like the right people to get Mixpanel back into the huge growth it knew early on.

Cons

There were a couple past years of stagnation.

Pros

Amazing leadership and best culture in Lehi.

Cons

Natural pains of scaling a new office and startup.

Advice to Management

Outlining career progression plan. Need to put it on paper.

Pros

Autonomy: you're trusted to be responsible for getting things done in the best way you know how. Micromanagement is absent. Process never becomes more important than delivering value. Empowerment: It's not a bigco. Everyone makes a noticeable impact, and individuals receive responsibility for significant systems and infrastructure. Learning: Coworkers are friendly, generous, and super-smart. Even after years at...

Cons

The staffing levels of different roles can vary wildly at different times, leading to unexpected bottlenecks (not enough designers, or product managers, or engineers specialized in some part of the stack). Small power vacuums around product ownership and direction occasionally lead to isolated competing efforts to address product pain points. Extreme focus on business competitors can be demoralizing, though it's clear...

Pros

Smart, friendly coworkers. No ego. Autonomy for teams. Challenging problems to work on and many opportunities for impact. It is an exciting time to be at Mixpanel. We shifted focus in May to become more customer focused, all the teams were given autonomy to prioritize features into what they felt was the most valuable work.

Cons

We lost focus on our customers, but this all changed in May and now we're making up for lost time, delivering exciting features.

Pros

Great people, Interesting problems. Small enough that your work actually matters.

Cons

Recent reorg has brought morale down a bit.

Advice to Management

Continue being aggressive in taking on the competition.