Pros
They are not scared about spending money! Crazy parties, free flowing alcohol, booking out full restaurants, new lavish luxury building and conference rooms and food are plenty so much that you would think they have a ever lasting money tree. You won't feel like you are in a startup. Truth is they still have a lot of venture capital money, which they treat the same way as a flourishing money tree. I hope that doesn't run out for us someday. The people are very nice, you will meet people who you'll enjoy spending time with. There is hardly any work pressure. Actually most of the harder workers have already left, so pressure to get things done is very much low which is nice. It probably doesn't sound good for business but these things really are good pros if you work here as an engineer.
Cons
The pros of fun spending a lot of money are balanced with a lot of worry and fear that there is no attention to the business and there is a very bad outlook. There is a lot of fake optimism and leaders look desperate now. Executives are very distant and don't spend time with regular employees. They likely find the regular employees too low to talk to anything but saying hi or sharing in a drink or making a few jokes. Good they don't totally ignores you but they make it very known that what they say matters and what you think does not even to their direct reports. You can tell executives don't care about their people, it can also be good thing if you want a relaxed environment where everyone is slow. I am now unforunately so used to it but didn't want to be. I don't think I ever spoke to an executive after orientation meetings. Don't expect to have any real leadership, or anybody who is going to mentor, help or work with you. They will treat you like a adult school kid but without giving you access to teacher or expert. Be prepared to learn on your own- and if you don't they probably won't notice anyway. All you have to do is go for a walk in the parking lot with your manager, and that is all the meeting you have. Managers are present in office, but not ever ready to help. The product team seem to be confused more now than I have ever seen, the new top leadership seems to not care, they are very lost. But they do give us things to do and never every complain about delays- so they are very nice in that way. There is no pressure at all, you can choose how little you want to work. It looks like most of the smart ones in product and marketing have been happily leaving as well as engineers, even ones that have been here a long time. This is not good. There is a big CX team, but they are like call center where we don't know them except company meetings. They are treated badly I think both for pay and morale, we have heard stories in the kitchen. They fire people a lot there. They like to outsource the job from what we see, they seem to like that the most. We don't even know when they leave or told to go away. This company is all talking secrets among the executives. Nobody really knows what is happening. Outside of the negative business outlook and no support, this could be a fun place to learn and have fun like one of the posts said. I don't know how long that is possible as a company, however if you care about what you do, this will be the wrong place to choose. I unfortunately came to this realization after a very long time. I wish I was wiser and smarter before. I hope this review helps.
