Pros
Excellent culture to start (Tackle in summer of 2022 was the best). Benefits were impossible to beat, with clear effort made on genuinely useful benefits for remote employees, not just lip service. The remote-first culture was amazing for those who liked and appreciated remote work. Tackle hired a lot of really great, talented people, and many of the people I worked with I would eagerly jump at the chance to work with again.
Cons
- Departments outgrew themselves, and communication broke down, leading to siloes and sour feelings all around. - Communication over people quitting or being fired was nonexistent; you had to guess based on who wasn't on slack anymore. - Roadmap was nonexistent for months while the product team leadership underwent shuffles, then seemed to have no clear direction whatsoever. - C-suite would go on week-long vacations in the middle of projects or processes requiring their sign off, holding up major initiatives for weeks at a time. - Insane amounts of meetings. Entire days spent in meetings with seemingly no actual output or progression. - Not everyone who joined seemed to actually like or do well in a remote work setting, which contributed to the communication breakdowns and siloes between teams