Pros
Smart, hard-working team. Made great friends while working
Cons
1) Transparency: leadership is completely opaque regarding how well the company is doing. An enormous red flag. 2) Compensation: below market value. Leadership will not share company's valuation, which is another big red flag. You can find valuation through third parties and will likely realize that Leia has to exit for an enormous (and unlikely) amount in order for your stock options to be worth anything meaningful. The fact that management hides public information with its own employees is disheartening, and there is a reason they don't want us to know (so you think your options are worth something). 3) Honesty: Management encourages employees to pump review sites with positive reviews for Leia products and also glassdoor for positive employment reviews. Maybe this is normal for a startup.