Pros
Amazing and talented people (except the high management), you can learn a lot, and competitive pay.
Cons
- They attract international talent with the promise of visas and count on you giving everything by hanging that carrot in front of you. Eventually, they’ll leave you hanging high and dry because you are hired as a contractor and they are not obliged to go through with that promise. - No long-term vision or strategy, no organization structure, everything is left to the whims of the co-founders. They will try to hire you as a Lewis Hamilton or a Fernando Alonso, calling you the experts to help him take the company to the next level but once you join you’ll be asked to drive a taxi cab around the streets of Montreal because that is what he and his wife did oh so many years ago and found success with it. No wonder the attrition rate is so high. - Suffocating micromanagement will be the theme. Even 15-minute tasks need to be tagged to different tickets and the cofounder will pull up your records and make snap judgments if you spent too much time on something. We are more worried about how he’ll perceive our timesheets than if we are producing quality work. - Micromanagement extends to social media where once he even published messages on Slack stating who all had liked certain posts on LinkedIn. He even tries to identify who published reviews here and requests people to make some edits. - Remote first is in name only. People who are able to visit the office regularly are treated with more respect and given more opportunities. You are expected to match their timings and work hours if you don’t want to be fired, so work through the night! - Toxic work culture with people fired left right and center with no rhyme or reason. Half the time you are just trying to survive under an ever-present atmosphere of tension which eventually takes a toll on your mental health. - The cofounder decides not what is best for the company, but what will make him look good. So survivors never do what’s right but just do what would make them happy, most of the time it is detrimental to the company. - They promise to provide mentorship for becoming leaders. In a way it is true but only if you are able to pick up how NOT to be a leader from the cofounder’s behavior. Unethical to the core with no filter between his brain and tongue. They liked to be referred to as the "leadership" but don’t realize that they are bosses more than leaders.