Great team, fantastic company culture, flexible working hours and real opportunities to learn and develop. - Growth Lead balena Employee Review

5.0
Aug 19, 2019
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Pros

Balena take a refreshing approach to growing and operating an organisation, with an almost flat hierarchy, employees are encouraged to be involved in any area of the business where they believe they can add value. By making recruitment decisions that focus more on skill and attitude than academic record and past job titles, they have built a team of brilliant, ambitious, open-minded people who are eager to support and also learn from one another. Having worked for and with companies who offer their employees zero support, push targets and are stuck in a mindless system of unexplainable policies and procedures, joining balena has been an absolute breath of fresh air.

Cons

I do sometimes miss working in an office environment so I guess this could be a 'con' for some people, however, the pro's of remote working enable me to achieve a great work/life balance.

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5.0
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Pros

Very supportive team and culture.

Cons

Time zones can get a bit tricky.

5.0
May 18, 2023
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Pros

- Work on what you love with room to explore your (relevant) interests (albeit within the company's best interests) - Culture is highly understanding, cooperative, and supportive - Employees respect each other - Management respects employees and recognizes their efforts - Employees' personal time is respected - Freedom to choose your own schedule - Management is open/non-secretive

Cons

- The remote environment makes it possible to get siloed, but the siloing could be avoided with a little effort to communicate with others and join meetings/open offices - It may take a bit to complete a feature/improvement (pending reviews, etc.) because everyone else also has their hands full with other features/improvements. Plus potential re-iterations provoked by reviews and other changes of product (a consequence of the long lifecycle of a PR). However, this is something that is actively being improved, with the company mindset recently having moved towards trying to get polished features out sooner in order to get feedback and iterate on them. - Have to do support shifts which (although beneficial for learning about the product) can be a bit tedious/boring at times

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