When I was interviewing at Lambda, I was told they were scaling the company for major growth. Unfortunately, this was not the case. My experience was they are running a 100+ person company as if it were still a 10 person startup. I’ll stick to the facts that I wished I had known before I joined: 1. The CEO and CTO are twin brothers who started the company together. Together, they make every meaningful decision and everyone else must execute their vision or be fired. They often bicker in meetings and it’s very uncomfortable. 2. During my time there, there was zero women or people of color on the engineering team, out of 30+ people. There are very few women in managerial or leadership roles. 3. There are only a handful of people of color at the company (maybe 10-12% if I’m being generous). 4. The CEO recently re-structured the product team so that he would be the lead and run every decision on product. As part of this re-structure, the head of product and two other product team members were terminated without notice or cause. The rationale the CEO gave the company was that he is a machine learning engineer so “he is the customer and the product”. 5. The CTO is the only person who approves code before it goes live. This is a huge bottleneck.
