If you aren’t a white male American, run the other direction.
Pros
Incredible talent and low egos at the IC level. These are some of the most thoughtful and bright people I’ve had the opportunity to collaborate with. The open source community around Gatsby as a framework is incredible, engaged, and enthusiastic. The work is legitimately interesting. Decent benefits
Cons
The company had huge turnover in the last year, effectively sliding it into an earlier start-up stage than its notoriety would indicate. They can no longer support senior specialization or junior career growth. Leadership is a combination of bigoted and incompetent; they regularly create and uphold systems that prioritize already overrepresented groups in tech. Regularly gets valuable feedback from employees, commit to make changes, and then either never follows through or changes things only to revert them soon thereafter. Product is built on cowboy coding, repeatedly abandoning things in prototype stage for the next shiny thing and then building on top of and maintaining unfinished and brittle architecture. Touts diversity and remote friendliness but prioritizes PST time zone and consistently underpays outside of America.
