Great place to write meaningful software - Engineer Zymergen Employee Review

5.0
Mar 9, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Really collaborative, friendly, smart coworkers. Great sense of tangible work- we're not coding for the sake of coding. It's really fun to go into the lab and see the science in progress. Lots of tech talks from scientists, too. Real sense of progress and potential for the company. Leadership is very transparent about contracts, growth projects, fundraising, etc. and the outlook is positive. No brogrammers- software (and other technical teams) have lots of women and out queer people. People mostly don't overwork themselves- coworkers eat lunch together in our (well-stocked) kitchen and we do a lot of things like climbing, sailing, hiking, happy hour.

Cons

Can be a bit chaotic as the company grows rapidly. No 401k matching.

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