Pros
- Lots of talented engineers and designers. - Great engineering culture. - Flat hierarchy, generally titles don't matter.
Cons
By far the biggest problem with this company is the founder & CEO. - Founder/CEO truly sees themself as a high-caliber inscrutable genius Silicon Valley tech magnate of some kind, and struts around the office aggressively dominating every conversation. - Founder/CEO prone to condescending attacks about engineering, design, or political topics. - Founder/CEO makes frequent off-color "jokes". Homophobic/transphobic jokes, veiled racist remarks, comments about female colleagues. Founder/CEO hates anything politically correct, openly admits "I would probably get sued if I was in the US". - Frequent child-like outbursts when Founder/CEO doesn't get their way. Micromanages engineers & designers despite zero credentials for being involved in technical decision-making process. - I've personally witnessed Founder/CEO browbeat a designer to the point of tears. Then there's the company. - Company frequently makes silent moves to undermine employee benefits. If you don't chase them day and night the company might just "forgot" to send you full salary. - Company has an extremely immature strategy for incident management, sometimes ganging up and blaming individual contributors when things go wrong. - Founder/CEO further utilizes their "misunderstood tech genius" persona to woo clients; company proceeds to under-resource projects and botch delivery months down the line after contracts have been signed and the spell has been broken. - Project managers are often lacking in technical foundation.