Pros
Fully remote, very flexible hours, good work life balance, cool and smart people, global company (employees from all continents), genuinely cool product
Cons
- Dysfunctional flat structure - Sausage fest (approx 10 women employees out of a hundred) - Slow, convoluted decision making process - You can grow in any direction you want as long as it aligns with what they want you to do - Huge egos, the flat structure doesn't allow for a clear leader, therefore decisions are often made by whoever can argue the longest - Sexism and bias evident in layoffs. They fired 50% of the female engineers and did not consult them for peer reviews when decisions were being made for layoffs - Multiple instances of not providing new female engineers with the same amount of support and training as their male counterparts - no clear onboarding process, new hires left to sink or swim - Clique-ish mentality, people often find themselves iced out of projects that they are supposed to own - toxic attitude that Balena is so revolutionary compared to any other company, but in reality management is narrow-minded and not receptive to new ideas