Pros
Culture of getting things done.
Cons
Work life balance is poor.
Pros
Lots of opportunities to make the role as you want. There’s plenty of opportunity for building 0 to 1 and everyone is open to new ideas. Think a process should be fixed? Fix it. Think of a project that should be done to help customers? Plan it. People have been at the company many years. I've chatted with people that have had 3 completely different roles at the company as it has scaled because they were hard workers and wanted to try new things. In the product org, people move from PMs to Engineers and back. In the customer success org, people move from being implementation team members to client partners to the support team and back. Pro/con depending on who you are: You need to be someone who will advocate for yourself in this culture as there isn't a lot of formality and structure. If you need something you need to make a case and ask for it. If you want to move roles, make a case, do part of your job as that role, then ask for it during a review cycle. All in all, I like it so far. Oh and huge plus that everyone gets lunch together for days in office.
Cons
Fast paced x 10- But it lets you go quickly without the regular big corp bureaucracy. You may be thinking “all startups say they’re fast paced” but it’s faster. The CEO doesn't like big corporate slow paced execution where there’s lots of layers of opinions and will make sure you have the resources you need to execute quickly and doesn't like excuses. Essentially you just need to come with solutions and get it done. Burnout can be common if you don't set boundaries and don't push back against unrealistic expectations. This can be difficult if you're earlier in your career. The "just get it done" piece needs to be backed up with a negotiation for how long something will take. If asked by ceo there’s some negotiation on timing but not much. Something to think about if you’re ready for.
Pros
The office gets free lunch. Coworkers (apart from management and executives) are all a pleasure to work with.
Cons
-very toxic work environment. constant changes to the company, clients are sold on lies. -very high turnover rate, I can’t tell you how many people have come and go in my time here at the company. -leadership lacks accountability for their mistakes, they’d rather play the blame game -there is no support for employees who work directly with clients, you are thrown under the bus and get reprimanded if you try to speak up for yourself -if you speak up when things are wrong, you get a target put on your back. -the CEO has a bunch of yes men afraid to speak up to him when bad decisions are made -no effort to actually grow your career here is made on the company’s end
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