Pros
Some smart individuals Good mission ideals
Cons
Leadership is retaliatory, smug, and doesn't want to hear the advice of the experts they've brought on, praising the people who are acting as 'yes men'. They gaslight and fire employees for poor execution or interpretation when the leadership is wholly responsible for causing communication breakdowns and contradictory statements. They also need to be involved in every single chat communication, making it frustratingly disruptive and difficult for teams to move quickly. Engineering leadership’s resistance to playing well with others and hoarding power has created an imbalance that makes it hard for non-engineering teams to build good products together with the engineers. No one on the executive leadership team has experience building a product platform, but they won't listen to the people they've hired to do the job. The company culture is highly toxic and combative, with too much hierarchy for a company of its size. They've created a culture where it benefits highly territorial employees to gatekeep knowledge, burned a lot of bridges with employees, and have a completely ass-backwards style of management. Extremely noticeable lack of gender and racial diversity. This is unacceptable in today's world, and it's clear that diversity and inclusion are not priorities for the leadership, and their 'vision' for making a more transparent and equitable supply chain is more about serving their self-righteousness egos than doing good. Healthcare and benefits are less important if you are considering an early stage startup, but even at this stage of a company, they are behind the times. One might as well pay for everything out of pocket because that's the same experience.