A great company with strong leadership that promotes bottom-up ownership and action
Pros
- Bottom-up culture of ownership and action - if you want it to happen the make it happen - Customer obsessed - Leadership is willing to invest in long-term growth and scalability - Smartsheet is in a wide-open market with lots of opportunity to create value for customers - Strong leadership hiring over the last few years - Highly supportive work environment in Product and Engineering - Culture of respectful yet critical feedback - I learn so much from so many great people on a daily basis - Smartsheet customers are fanatical and it's super fun to work with them
Cons
- Benefits lag behind other big companies in the area, but you're doing some trading of benefits for growth upside (Note: Recently got 401k matching but it's not a top-tier match for the industry) - The product desperately needs some modernizing to compete against other more UX-driven experiences built by our competitors - There's a lot of pain for engineering teams right now as we transition through an engineering reorg and move to cloud/microservices, but that is likely to be a temporary/transitionary state - With rapid growth there is some growing pain around ensuring the quality of middle-management remains high, making the