Pros
Privacera knows how to stack their team with people who've proven themselves in the past and continue to help take the organization to a new level. Hiring smart and strategically means they trust you to do your work. You're given virtually endless opportunities to contribute your experience, skills, and ideas, with a great degree of autonomy. And they have solid systems in place that ensure consistent communication, identification of common goals, awareness of what everyone's working on and associated dependencies, etc. Collaboration is huge here. Especially in my role, I might work across 5 different departments in a single day. Everyone has something unique to offer, and we work to bring it all together for a cohesive solution.
Privacera is still technically operating within a start-up framework. But they've been around since 2016. And they didn't start from scratch. Privacera’s unified data access governance platform was founded by the creators of Apache Ranger, one of the most widely used open source data security and access control frameworks. And the Privacera platform is built on those proven open standards. So, there's years of innovation and development already baked into what we're working on. There's great confidence to be gained from that, and an accelerated roadmap ahead.
The first phase was primarily focused on platform and solution development. With new releases regularly, sustainable innovation is very much at the heart of what we do. But now, it's getting really exciting as marketing and other support areas are ramping up with speed.
Truly solid people throughout this organization. They know their stuff, and they know how to collaborate toward a common goal.
Know your stuff. Do your stuff. Have fun executing. I feel like I've finally found my forever-company.
Cons
None that stand out as long as you're ready to step outside your comfort zone and push your talents. As a startup, you have to be ready to produce results. There's no sitting back and blending in with the crowd here. But that's what makes it especially fulfilling.
And as a startup, you need to be comfortable with certain processes and systems still being in development. Again though, if you have the right perspective, that's an exciting opportunity to contribute.
And while a full workload is good for job stability, it also requires you to exercise a degree of self-management to prevent burnout. But our managers specifically speak to that, acknowledging there's always going to be a lot to do—a company with little work to do is likely a sinking ship—telling us to pace ourselves and pay attention to our personal wellbeing.