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Actually, I agree with both of these ‘cons’.
The first is a conscious trade-off that we’ve made. We want to support our team in their professional development, but we do believe that this needs to be employee-led and they should suggest the path that is right for them. We’re always there to coach and guide, but if we were to outline a strict career path, then we wouldn’t see team members who’ve been able to shift from product development to client services, or from design to project management, or from data research to client support.
The second is in-part because, as a start-up, we don’t have the capacity and resources we would want to have to do all of the things we have identified on our roadmap. So there will always be some desire to move more quickly than we would like. But there is also an aspect to this where we are not balancing our competing priorities as effectively as we could, resulting in too much context-switching from our engineering team. This has been identified as an area that we are currently working on to improve and I am hopeful that we will see a faster path forward in the near future.