Pendo Associate Software Engineer reviews

Incredibly flexible working environment, especially with regards to WFH, PTO, and clocking in and out. Transparency on everything. Company performance, career progression, high-level decision-making. Culture of 'no stupid questions'. Pendo honestly embraces the ethos that "everyone wants everyone else to succeed" to a level I've never seen before. Supportive rather than oppressive hierarchy. Despite being in an entry level engineering position, I've talked with the CTO on three occasions. My manager hasn't demanded a single thing, and instead has essentially been here to help me achieve both my own goals of getting proficient with the development stack, and having personal development, since that has been such a smooth way to get into the flow of work. Incredibly inclusive. Look up the "affinity groups" at Pendo. It's not just a checkbox thing, they actually understand how to make one feel a part of the company. They have values and they stick to them. You can probably find them on their website, there are right now seven "core values" and they come up surprisingly often. They're used to settle decisions, keep accountability, and to celebrate when people are exhibiting those values. It's like a common language used to communicate motivations and it works really well. The work/life separation is absolute. I leave the building on an afternoon and like flicking a switch I don't have to think about a single thing until I come in the next day.

First and foremost, the people. People really seem to care about each other. People check in on me and listen when I'm having a bad day. Everyone loves to make each other smile - we have a great pun and joke culture here. As an employee straight out of college, I appreciate that management takes the time to give me advice and teach me things that I haven't had a chance to learn yet, instead of taking advantage of the lack of knowledge to, for example, get me to work on the weekend when I didn't need to or something. Life outside of work is not just talked about - everyone steps in to try to make it possible for each other. The amount of times I've seen someone on vacation told to "get off slack and go be with your family!" is awesome. Even when the person on vacation is upper management/incredibly knowledgeable, everyone steps in to try to make their vacation relaxing. On the engineering side, this shows up when someone has to stay up late due to a difficult on-call - others step in so that the original on-call person can sleep and rest. And since everyone is doing this kind of stuff for each other when necessary, life outside of work really becomes a reality for everyone. I also really like the work I'm doing. I get to work on performance problems in the backend of the product a lot, and I work with incredibly smart people. I've only been here a few months and I've had a ton of opportunities to learn from my teammates. And they've all been very patient with me as I get up to speed.