Strong Product / Company, but needs to be wary of warning signs as the company grows
Pros
- Overall a really strong, smart team that really strive with their work - strong product / vision - Good leadership team at exec level.
Cons
- poor middle managers. Many of them have little to no experience and no training so they're left trying to work things out and generally fail - as the company grows there's an increasing lack of autonomy, and middle tier management are seemingly making all of the decisions without looping in the people on the ground - there's two very different sides to the culture; for those that genuinely buy into it, it's a strong culture of sharing and trust. Others use it as a facade and decide it doesn't apply to them other than in extremely general terms. Again, those people are often in management positions, so this is starting to spread and is ending up with people climbing the ladder by slightly more nefarious means, and the 'nice' culture means that this often doesn't get called out. This is fortunately rare, but it's likely to get worse as the company grows.
