Excellent Culture, Flexible Working, Fantastic People - Technical Sales balena Employee Review

5.0
Feb 24, 2022
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Pros

Balena contains some very smart folks who form a company culture that is unlike any I have experienced before. There is a lot of freedom to choose what you work on, the strategy and ultimately the execution. The remote working setup and flexible working hours is a big plus, and the flat hierarchy makes it much more agile than other companies I have worked at.

Cons

The company can be challenging in the sense that there are lots of different areas of development, and hard problems, that need to be solved which can feel a little overwhelming sometimes.

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5.0
Jan 14, 2025
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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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