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3.3

52% would recommend to a friend

(9 total reviews)
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Joshua Xu

53% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

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5.0
Oct 30, 2025
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Pros

The culture is aggressive and fast, always chasing the latest tides of AI. Leadership has a broad vision with constantly evolving goals. Always pushing into new areas and building great products. Get to work with top researchers on SOTA generative modeling, tackling interesting and challenging real-world problems. For a startup, the compensation is excellent. Benefits are abundant—food, commute, and the best office devices are all covered.

Cons

Work-life balance isn't the priority here; the role requires a high level of dedication and commitment. It's not a structured or methodical environment. Decisions and focus change quickly. Need to constantly adapt to align with company goals.

5.0
Oct 7, 2025

Builder's paradise

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Huge whitespace for self-motivated, ambitious people to run with ideas, ship, and test. - Culture that's very open to experimentation and testing new things. Also, leaders encourage it and are genuinely okay with failing, as long as we learn from it and try again. - High standards that raise the bar and accelerate personal growth. You’ll learn more in months here than in years elsewhere. - CEO is genuinely invested in the team, is transparent, and prefers growing people into bigger roles. - Free lunch and dinner. - Colleagues are all super smart, humble, and kind. - Company offsites

Cons

Very fast-paced with frequent changes, so it is not a great fit for people who are not flexible or comfortable with ambiguity.

5.0
Oct 3, 2025
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Pros

- AI Frontier Lab on the cutting edge of AI Video. Very cool to be able to play with models before the public. - Cool projects that span across AI + Infra + Product - Rewards High performance with bonuses ($5K spot bonus) and upwards mobility (promotions in less than a year) - 4x in revenue since I joined (1 year ago)

Cons

- Expect to work a lot to keep up with the market. I work 60hrs a week minimum - Hard to work here if you are not passionate about AI Video. You have to keep up with people's AI Video passion. - A lot of secrecy around the underlying technology, very silo'ed information - 5 days in office

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