Good place to make an impact - Software Engineer SmartNews Employee Review

5.0
10 Sept 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Team size is not too big, so everybody can make significant impact and work/learn e2e. Also pretty flexible to choose the technology you like. A lot of new technologies are being used/investigated to use soon in our system. Engineers make technical decisions where PMs provide product requirements. People are very friendly and willing to help. Co-founders are still actively involved which is a good sign.

Cons

Seems still a few years away from going public.

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Cons

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