Pros
Good benefits, good work-life balance (for some), Rho24s, some really smart people.
Cons
Flat structure is a failure. No one is happy with it. Rho has serious problems with managing resourcing because the people making decisions don’t understand the work being done. I personally experienced gross imbalances in workload with some of the people on my team were working every weekend for long periods of time while I begged for work and was never close to being fully allocated to projects my entire time at Rho. Rho’s ‘no layoff policy’ is a complete farce. Instead of laying people off honestly when Rho gets in financial trouble, they will trump up reasons to fire them or force them to resign. Rho focuses on focus on hiring new grads that they can enculturate into the ‘Rho way’ and have a workforce that drinks the Kool-aid without question. Therefore they don’t know how to onboard or value experienced individual contributors. I have many years of experience, yet I was treated like I was entry level and not any given work at my level for months because management was afraid I wouldn’t be able to handle it. Rho gives a lot of lip service to innovation, and while there are some innovative people, there is also a lot of ‘stuck in the past’ mentality with great resistance to change including the attacking and bullying of people who make even minor suggestions for change. Salaries are not equitable – some people with my job title were making 30% more than others. Frequent and open feedback is encouraged, but many people turn that into an excuse to bully and belittle. Lots of favoritism and cliquishness. People are driven out because their manager personally dislikes them.