Pros
- Innovative startup that has very real potential to influence the wider cloud industry through products, involvement in the community, and via "thought leadership" - Excellent and experienced leadership across the company, product, and tech teams - Lots to learn, and everyone is generally happy to share their knowledge and experience - The company has product-market fit with at least one product, and so the super-early stage work is done - Access to super-technical team members, many of whom have been part of successful company exits, or have been working in IT since PCs became a thing. Others have also contributed to well-known technical specs and continue to do so now - Flexible working. As long as you communicate effectively and deliver your work, leadership are happy for you to work at home or remote - Attend and present at conferences (KubeCon, Velocity etc) and meetups. Time, guidance, and feedback is provided for folks looking to level up their presentations skills, storytelling abilities, and related industry profile
Cons
- There's a lot to do. If you can't prioritise, communicate, and take feedback effectively, then you will struggle (although this is true with any startup) - Unstructured career progression. Again, this is common with startups, but this isn't the necessarily a place that offers a well-tracked training program and structured six-monthly reviews. Feedback comes as and when necessary, big opportunities appear out of the blue, and you do have to take charge of your own learning and direction - Not (yet) a remote first culture. Lot's of progress has been made with this over the past year, but remote folks (especially outside of engineering) still have to keep an eye out for any missing context