Poor leadership and culture made worse by private equity
Pros
- Challenging work (largely due to poorly designed products) - Decent work/life balance
Cons
Leadership and culture. I was an IC and I had next to no trust in any leader in the organization, they were begrudgingly transparent (had to be forced to keep a pre-acqusition anonymous AMA). Very little overall direction within engineering org. Private equity strangling a once good company. Company with many remote workers hasn't had ANY in-person events in 3+ years. Retaining and acquiring customers being put ahead of anything else, this has resulted in WAY more overselling of the product than usual. This then falls at the feet of engineering to figure out how to make things work and is not a great position to be in. Beginnings of a blame culture around churning of customers, the company also apparently has now tied customer churn to some people's salary. So if a customer doesn't renew for a reason outside their control, they still lose compensation.
