Pros
Loom has some of the most thoughtful and capable people i have ever met in my life. * Your peers genuinely care about you and more often than not you will find help from some corner of the org as long as you ask for it. As long as you are autonomous, self-directed and show ownership you are rewarded for it eventually. * The company is better than most at remote culture and understands the value of in-person connections as well. * The engineering org has an incredible array of talent and expertise that has pulled off incredible innovation and shipments so far. * Technical and product vision for the company is much more ambitious than what meets the eye.
Cons
* The culture built on a sense of trust and assuming positive intent is going through some rough times at the moment as it scales massively while being completely remote. This introduces a lot of opportunities for people to get stuck in weird corners of the org where they may get stuck with an incompetent manager/hire or people who are still figuring things out. * As long as you are good at your job and upfront with feedback these situations resolve themselves out but like any org going through growing pains it doesn’t all work out every time. * It is also fair to say the leadership is going through a learning curve as well - some decisions may come off as opaque and ham fisted where they aren’t and some decisions just are exactly that. No company is going to have perfect leadership and no leader is going to be perfect. Also as the company grows there will be decisions that people don’t agree with. What matters is accountability shown based on the results of those decisions. * Certain parts of the org have more autonomy than others based on how mature the product is in that area.