Pros
If hustle culture is what you’re after, then this place is for you! Nothing like a drill-instructor approach of “you’re not sending enough emails or making enough calls” to fire you up! Cool logo tho. Good product that hasn’t been seriously developed in a while, which allowed the AWS, Google, and Azures of the world to catch up. If you like reality TV, and want to LIVE in that type of world, you’ll find this place exciting!
Cons
Where do I start? Lol! A majority of people RIFd hadn’t been at the company for more than a year. Pressure, pressure, pressure to grow the business in ‘21, and then cut 40% of the company in a quarter less than a year later. Poor financial planning. While the vocal minority of people that wanted the C-level fired, they got what they wanted, but those same vocal people are largely remaining silent in the wake of all of those 40% of employees that were let go. GTM and “old guard” didn’t see eye-to-eye…created a lot of tension. Will def want to know how the next company I interview is handling this change management. I truly feel bad for those that DO stay. How does one instill confidence in a prospect/customer about the viability of your business when it’s been positioned that ONE bad quarter resulted in 40% of the company being laid off? Sounds like more shenanigans. If I’m a competitor, I’m using this all day if I’m competing against Datarobot. Great product at Datarobot for sure…but poor execution strategy. While the market is hot for AI/ML, has Datarobot shot itself too many times in the foot? My senses tell me that the RIF survivors will voluntarily find new gigs somewhere else before the year ends. This is like the WeWork series on Hulu, only Datarobot isn’t that significant.