Pros
Lots of talented people work there, Elixir/Phoenix is a fun tech stack to work in, very flexible with remote working.
Cons
Most teams are hugely overworked and overstressed, the only way to get recognition is to go out on your own and pick up the flashiest prototype project you can, leaving the rest of your team shorthanded. Management insist that engineers should be empowered to go and fix problems when they see them, but in reality there's barely enough time to get actual OKR work done, and then they hold their hands up all confused why nothing in the extremely shaky tech is getting fixed, all that engineer-empowerment is just an excuse used to pin responsibility for failures on the engineers. The company likes to tout itself as a mission-driven company for good, giving people an alternate route into employment that doesn't require university, but in reality this makes up an increasingly tiny part of the business. All of the focus and energy is put into the other side of the business that's all about giving companies the tools to upskill existing employees, which is not at all what they like to advertise themselves as. Worse than that, the company is trying to turn itself into "the" way that people get jobs in tech-adjacent roles, without ever stopping to wonder if it's doing that in a way that people actually want. Multiverse is a sinking ship built on shiny figma-prototypes and dodgy tech demos, led by a group that hope if they don't acknowledge the holes, then the ship will stay afloat. But hey, at least the sails look pretty.
