Pros
Talented and hardworking colleagues, remote
Cons
I'll start with the genuine highlight: the people I worked alongside were exceptional. Talented, collaborative, and resilient. They are the only reason this company functions at all.
Unfortunately, everything above the IC level is a different story.
The CEO leads with ego rather than strategy. There is a persistent sense that leadership views employees as liabilities rather than assets, which is a mindset that permeates every major decision. Engineers, who literally keep the lights on, are routinely disrespected and treated as interchangeable. Leadership's push to offload engineering work onto AI tools is presented as innovation, but in practice it's cost-cutting without a coherent plan, and the product quality reflects it.
The organizational dysfunction is pervasive: compensation is below market, layoffs are frequent and poorly handled, and client churn is high: a direct reflection of instability at the top. The revolving door of talent and clients alike tells you everything you need to know.
When I resigned, I retained access to multiple internal systems and client repositories for an extended period by no effort of my own. I had to remove myself from multiple systems because they did not do it upon my departure. For a company handling client data, this is not a minor oversight. It reflects a broader pattern of process failures that go unaddressed because accountability stops at the executive level.
If you're considering joining: the individual contributors may make your day-to-day bearable, but don't expect leadership to value your work, protect your role, or run a coherent company.
