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      3.6

      58% would recommend to a friend

      (71 total reviews)
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      Mike Palmer

      62% approve of CEO

      60% positive business outlook

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      3.9

      Compensation and benefits

      3.2

      Work/Life balance

      3.1

      Career opportunities

      3.0

      Culture & values

      2.8

      Senior management

      2.7

      Diversity & inclusion

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      4.0
      Nov 1, 2022

      Amazing people and great outlook

      Software engineer
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Sigma has a wonderful culture and atmosphere - people are friendly, coworkers enjoy socializing together, and there's excitement around Sigma's continued success. The engineering department has a great VP who has vision and experience scaling small teams. Due to the founders being technical, there's a strong engineering culture within the company, with technical feasibility a first-class citizen among leadership. For example, due to site reliability issues, all of engineering took a month to focus on stability and tech debt instead of feature development, something I've never experienced on another production app. Post-pandemic, the company has moved to a hybrid work culture, with teams in the office 2-3 days / week. The leadership is fantastic. I've seen people be fired, but their last day of "official" employment delayed just so their options vest. Instead of trying to screw people out of every dollar like many places might, Sigma has consistently done right by people. They also do a comp adjustment to ensure existing engineers aren't getting paid less than incoming engineers.

      Cons

      On the one hand, having two founders who are brilliantly technical means there are tremendous opportunities to learn and grow. Both Rob and Jason actively and regularly push and review code. However, they both much prefer doing to teaching/leading, so less experienced engineers often find themselves floundering. I'd also be remiss if I didn't mention that one of the founders has a rather contentious approach that not everyone enjoys. If you work in a similar part of the codebase as him, you'll have to prove to him you know what you're doing before he trusts you. In the absence of that trust, expect extensive PR reviews. Feedback loop is nonexistent - both IC and managers often have no idea how they're doing until it's too late. Iteration speed is often high, with it occasionally impacting work / life balance. Leadership is a bit of a stickler about coming into the office.

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      Sigma Computing Response
      3y
      Thank you for providing your feedback on working at Sigma. It’s definitely a great company and culture and people are excited about the growth and opportunity. I wanted to add some of my own experience and perspective here: - We definitely expect people to show up at the office. We’ve found that people learn and grow much faster that way, and we are very transparent about this throughout the interview process. - As the company grows, we’ve been hiring managers and putting in place processes for providing more feedback. I’m sorry you did not feel you were getting enough. We try not to surprise people. - Our founders do write code and review a lot of PRs. I’ve found that people learn very quickly by taking on that feedback, understanding it, and improving their code. Sigma is a very complex application, and learning from the people who wrote a key part of it is a great way to get up to speed quickly. Suggestion for a feedback process is appreciated and is top of mind with leadership. I’m sorry your experience might not have been great.
      5.0
      Oct 2, 2022

      Great place to get a startup experience

      Software engineer
      Recommend
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      Pros

      - growing startup - well placed to ride out economic cycles - strong engineering culture

      Cons

      - not remote friendly, must be near SF

      2.0
      Sep 10, 2022

      Cutthroat culture

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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      Pros

      - Nice office in SF... although SF isn't what it used to be - Pay and benefits are good - Solid investors led by industry legend Mike Speiser. I don't imagine they will allow this company to fail. - Industry is exciting - If you're in sales and doing well, life is GOOD

      Cons

      - Cutthroat culture - CEO is a tiny bully man - Behavior of leadership at events and after working hours totally unprofessional - Slow growth - If you work in marketing... good luck. you're gonna need it. - In person employees favored over remote. First time CEO is enamored with having a chic SF building full of workers. - No 401k match

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      Sigma Computing Response
      3y
      Thank you for your comments. I'm sorry you didn't enjoy your time with us - as you know our culture is one of collaboration and humility and by that we mean that we all expect to give feedback freely and receive it with openness. We believe that that approach helps us to ensure that the cross functional collaboration that is crucial to our growth continues. We also believe that that works best in person - it's far easier to innovate and collaborate with our peers and other functions in an open and curious way when we are all standing around an actual whiteboard! We know that that is not for everybody so while we are sad when people choose to go onto other adventures we are glad that they will have an opportunity to find a place that works better for them. I hope that that is the case for you. With regards to our growth - I'm not sure that I would characterize 300% Y/Y growth as slow but I guess it's all relative! Wishing you all the best for the future.
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