Great environment. Struggling in growth and management.
Pros
I’m approaching this from being on the YouVersion Team. Life.Church is purposeful about your growth. They care about you excelling in your vocation/discipline, in your emotional intelligence, and your spiritual health. The environment inspires and challenges you to do your best work. And the challenge is supplemented with quality resources and a great working environment. Currently, we have outgrown our space. But leadership is intentional about where we are with new building plans and go out of their way to make what we do have enjoyable. My co-workers have legitimately positive and hope-filled attitudes. It’s not just a show. YouVersion has some incredibly smart and talented people on staff.
Cons
The YouVersion product side has released quite a few buggy features with poor usability over the past few years that have negatively impacted our users as well as morale. At the end of the day this leads back to the growth struggle in our mid-management. I make it a point to say "management" because we have good leaders here. But motivation and inspiration doesn't take the place of skilled management and good product decisions making. If you’re passionate about user-centered design and product philosophies written about in such books as “Inspired”, then there is a good chance you’ll find some frustration working here in YouVersion's current state. But if you come with an attitude to make it better, you will. With that, this is still an amazing place to work that is going through growing pains. And I look forward to updating this review in a few years and stating how these issues have been solved.