Pros
The work is meaningful. Our platform is helping customers elevate their experiences and scale their businesses to help more American’s reach their financial goals. I have autonomy. As a product manager, I drive my teams strategy based on our company goals and customer discovery and I have feel empowered to make the tough prioritization decisions. Great people. This pandemic has been tough! Leaders have been super supportive when I have to drop things to take care of quarantined kids. I look forward to our daily standup because we aren’t efficient in them. We take time to talk about our lives and go on some random tangents which makes my day (sorry scrum master friends).
Cons
Aggressive goals. We set the bar high and expect a lot from people. Growth is hard and it takes a lot of work. Some days can definitely be exhausting. Turnover. It makes it harder to maintain momentum and achieve our release goals. That being said, we’ve attracted some great veteran software leaders at the c-level and engineer to fill the roles. We are evolving like crazy all over the place.