Pros
Blockchain is an interesting space to get into, the engineers are very good and helpful, and there are nice people at the organization
Cons
The main problem is the product market fit. How will you deploy Daml to these financial companies that have historically seen you as a replacement of their business, or see the Daml product as too slow for most financial transactions? You end up with projects that are half baked and short term throwaway projects that companies only budget a small portion of their wallet towards, not a main driver of business. Since you don't know how to truly answer that product market fit question, you blame your vendor partners who you've been in business with for years because you think they "don't know daml", but the problem is 1) you never trained them 2.) the clients you work with no longer see the connection between what you do and what their objectives are. On top of that, you lie to new joiners and tell them that you're going to train them in this new technology, but fail to train them, then quickly fire them, to cover up your missteps in management and to protect your own jobs and big bonuses. The very living definition of toxic management, the kind no one wants to work for, even if it's at a "cool" company. What's also hypocritical is that DA brings on managers that don't know the product at all, have poor communication skills, and stay at the organization simply because they're more well connected, yet when it comes to building the business, these managers have no clue what they're doing, because they are equally if not more confused than the people who work for them. Apply the same standards to your managers as you do to your direct reports, don't play favorites.