Pros
A handful of truly amazing individuals who live in fear of job security. Clean offices and the best health benefits east of Spokane. Don’t let *required* free lunch fool you.
Cons
On your first interview you’ll meet with one of the best sourcing and recruiting talents in the business. They’ll know more about you than you remembered was on your resume. If you have a phone screen, congratulations, they only interview the best. You’ll hear about perks of the office like free daily lunch, unlimited snacks, and amazing benefits. As a highly skilled, experienced professional with an array of experience in your background you’ll think, “this is too good to be true.” You’ll take pay lower than market rate because their US HQ is in Idaho and the benefits are unreal. You think you’re going to be a part of the next innovative data giant, and you’ll be excited about the people you think you’ll work with. On your first day you realize the smiles you encountered on your first day were because every interaction you have in the office is recorded. Most space in the office is a “quiet” zone, so remember to keep your conversations and laughter in “open” areas only. Every conversation, email, and meeting is potentially being watched. The CEO is a lone contributor with acute experience in knowing how to find every crumb you left on the Internet, yet has zero people skills or corporate considerations to lead a profitable company. He does not want your opinion, you were hired solely to execute his vision. If you’re in sales, you’ll be lucky to have a fully baked comp plan. And more often than not, your job and/or bonus will be at risk at the end of the quarter. Get it in writing, otherwise in the game of Pipl anything can change. You won’t have effective systems or support to scale in your job. Management/leadership is often frantic dealing with the demands of an out of touch CEO. Most people don’t stay long at Pipl, the ones who do fear they won’t find something better somewhere else. A tip to consumers, figure out how to remove your data stored at Pipl and remember nothing you delete on the Internet is ever deleted.