Learning to scale. Growing fast, but feeling some pain.
Pros
The opportunity to work for a leader in a relatively young industry and develop skills that will be in wide demand across sectors is not to be overlooked. Hands down the smartest most capable development and operations teams I've worked with in nearly a decade of Seattle metro it work. Limitless opportunity to get hands on experience with best in class tools, implemented by smart people. Fairly meritocratic organization: surprisingly little politics for the scale they've achieved. It'll be interesting to see if and how the new CEO changes things. There is an opportunity to drive cross team alignments that could lead to infighting, or a more efficient and focused business.
Cons
The stock price collapse is a double whammy given that stock based compensation is a large component of pay. The "freakishly friendly" culture exists, but doesn't include everyone. It feels like any other popularity oriented place since jr high to me. Maintaining team unity doesn't just happen, it takes dedicated effort to keeping people on the same page. Just being part of the team feels like an uphill battle if you haven't been one of the cool kids all your life. Tableau focused on growing as fast as possible, and now faces a LOT of redundancies in workflow and costs as a result. Belt tightening and streamlining is now necessary as a publicly traded company, and the process unavoidably leads to some frustration. Day to day you're either dealing with some redundancy, or figuring out the best case for getting rid of it. This all takes focus away from building the best possible products.
