Engineering centric company - Senior Software Engineer Diagrid Employee Review

The founders are empathetic and caring - they want to see the team succeed and are forward-thinking in setting up structures that will help the company scale. The team is mighty and made up of dedicated individuals who just want to do their best work. Their enthusiasm is infectious - everyone is always excited to share their work, and gets to make a big impact.

There's a lot to be done, but that's the fun of it. You get a chance to help build something.

Interesting insights into the open-source world, their engineers are brilliant

• When you think of a true revenue-generation, customer acquisition sales job, there are better places to look than here. Especially if you have a good track record of success. • The pay in my opinion was a bit below average given the experience required & how early stage the company is. • Being told to use company approved messaging only. • Spending more time interfacing with “management” (management, not leadership - parroting a mid-sized company’s playbook to me) than prospective clients, for the sake of “visibility” (I was also told that this was necessary because sending a link to CRM notes & contact info isn’t enough). • It was explicitly outlined to me to limit my interactions to a defined set of accounts, individuals, and working hours in one specific time zone (just a name a few sales restrictions) which needless to say, will absolutely ruin sales anywhere, much less at such an early stage startup. • For reference, I have done a sales role in another early-stage company and gotten over 10x the revenue and customer acquisition having been there for maybe a quarter of the time, than was ever possible in the same role at Diagrid; because at its core the job I had here, in my view, was not sales. It was more or less just finding contact information to send canned messaging to already-identified individuals, reporting back to someone in management about if each person did or didn’t respond, definitely checking off boxes more than creating a path forward.