Pros
Great combination of ownership, fulfilling work, and super smart people.
The company is shifting its management style to give more ownership to its team members. We recently define our own OKRs/goals instead of management defining them for us. It's more of a collaborative process this time.
Being a fully-remote company is hard to build connections with team members. But last June the company invited everyone to fly into Seattle on the company's dime for a week-long of festivities and workshops. They booked WeWork and we had fun events every night - dinners, Mariner's game, yacht party, bar-hopping. It was the best experience to bond with my coworkers. Seems like we're again planning for the next company retreat for this summer again.
The company has a high bar for hiring so everyone here is super smart and motivated to help job seekers. There's zero politics - everyone is just focused on doing great work.
Lots of room for growth. I heard the first marketing assistant grew from just an assistant to lead the entire marketing team in 2017. The recent senior engineer also became a lead for the entire engineering team. Everything is quite flexible here.
Cons
The company made a few mis-hires when it tried to grow faster in 2021. So it hired a few executives. But a company our size doesn't need "executives." One guy in particular was all talk and led the team into the wrong direction. He eventually got fired but a few people also left because of it. Which was probably a good thing.
