Pros
Forward thinking, always looking for how to advance in the marketplace and build out a powerful and cohesive platform for our customers. The folks on the subscriber services teams (support and RemoteDBA) are wonderful to work with and their skillset is inspiring. It's really wonderful to be working with some of the most knowledgable people in the industry. Sales and Marketing pay attention to the technical side of things and really considers how our customers will utilize our various offerings. This is refreshing as this is not always the case, especially in the technology sector. Overall the culture at MariaDB is welcoming and filled with talent. The distributed global team really works well together despite not all being in the same place or time zone.
Cons
In some areas it would be great to have more cohesive process in place, especially between different teams. This is especially important given the distributed nature of the company. That being said, this is something I see a number of people focused on and it's always improving. Not enough diversity, especially women in technical roles. MariaDB is working on this, but would love to see it improve.