Pros
- Competitive pay - Competitive benefits - Opportunity to travel - Access to smart customers and co-workers
Cons
- Toxic work environment where asking questions gets you an incredulous look like you're the biggest idiot in the world - People who point out problems and even ways to resolve them are berated - Terrible work/life balance which is propagated by executives continually promising customers results and timelines that aren't possible to deliver - Egotistical co-founders who are either too ignorant or too proud to acknowledge that the company has been sinking for years - Prioritized selling consulting engagements over building a real product - Market has caught up, and passed, with what they used to consultant on - Platform makes it harder, not easier, to build solutions - Most of the customer use cases on the website aren't ones they've actually developed, maybe a conversation with a customer or even a workshop, but not an actual solution they developed - Brain drain has been ongoing for the last few years, with COVID they let go/lost the majority of the remaining good people - If you look at non C-level employees, none of the original 25-50 employees are still there, which speaks volumes by itself - All examples of using the platform are entirely trivial, you can chain together microservices without needing Maana, the interesting part was interconnecting and inferring knowledge across projects with the knowledge graph, but they don't have any examples of doing that--they might pretend they do but they don't if you dig deeper