Best place to work - Senior Customer Success Engineer 1plusX Employee Review

Highly skilled and talented co-workers, challenging and interesting work

AdTech is not the most attractive field of work

- small team; - relative freedom over working hours; - stocked kitchen with snacks; - weekly book club meetings

- inexperienced engineering mgt after the 2 VPs of Engineering left in '18 and a TLM in May '19; - hands-off/part-time chief engineering leader that left entirely in Dec '18 only to return in Jan '19 in order to revive hiring; - compensation is substantially under the market value; - very high turnover: between 01.04.18 and 01.04.19 over 10 engineers and 5 non-engineering staff left/were fired out of approx. 30-35 total staff; - overly hyped/focusing on sales priorities; - CEO without technical background and mostly focusing on sales; - seniority/tenure override most technical decisions regardless of whether arguments are researched/sound; - customers are mostly B2B with a very small number of DAU/MAU; - limited career growth for the engineering positions with an undefined career ladder; - lack of clear vision and strategy over the company's products; - limited opportunity for research-based projects