Pros
I started working on the recruiting team at Sendoso in summer of 2021 and honestly was the best job I've ever had. Sendoso just received their series C funding, the team I was working on was so fun, amazing and supportive, the CEO was incredibly hands on in the best way possible for our team. It kind of felt too good to be true (turns out, it was). We were told we were going to double the size of the company by the end of 2022, we were on a "hypergrowth rocket ship", if we hit a certain number of hires by the first half of the year then we would receive a Presidents club style vacation. The team went from 4 people to over 30 people in my time with Sendoso. Everything took an absolute 180 in May. At the start May, Sendoso went on a hiring freeze and we were told it would last 2 weeks. After 2 weeks we received zero update and 1 month later we still heard nothing, it wasn't looking good. Thursday evening they put back to back meetings scheduled for Monday morning on the whole team's calendar with the team's leaders. It was very obvious these meetings were going to be layoffs, there were tons of signs pointed in that direction. Monday morning, the layoffs began and in total they ended up laying off 140 people including almost the entire recruiting team. We were provided 4 weeks severance. I truly felt we were sold on a false promise. Nothing felt worse than waiting all weekend for those scheduled meetings on Monday morning, which was likely going to result in layoffs. In April, Sendoso announced that they were building a $40m office in Scottsdale, less than 2 months later layoffs occurred but no word of cancelling the building of the office. I can't help but feel really sad over the whole situation because it seemed extremely preventable.
Cons
Tons of people in management who are there because they've been with Sendoso since the beginning but are very incompetent. Lack of transparency. In my less than 1 year there, they fired 4 executives, some they were transparent about, some they were not. Lack of communication all across the org. Pay is not as competitive as other tech companies. No work from home stipend/internet reimbursement. The recruiting team was not provided cell phones, meaning we had to call candidates using our personal phones.