Early Hustler - Anonymous employee Backplane Employee Review

5.0
2 Aug 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Backplane is a rad idea. The company is trying to empower brands to have more control and more conversation with their audience. This is a great alternative to other social media products. The team has been relentless on working on it and are all nice people. I had a blast working with everyone there. The CEO closed a ton of tops brands.

Cons

The cons for Backplane are the same as the cons for all social media companies which is that it's a tough space. It's tough to break into the mainstream on any startup. Backplane's challenges then are not unique from my experience, just it's a hard space.

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5.0
24 Feb 2016
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Pros

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Cons

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5.0
1 June 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The company today is not what it was when I started. The business and team has moved from early startup mode and is working on scaling. The team has changed, but in no way has it lost the best talent. Like any team, we have had a couple of people move on that we care about, but we only cheer their new opportunities. Our product and engineering teams are as courageous as they are and building the best products on top of the most modern toolchain possible. If fact, I have never worked with a more talented group of people. It's amazing to be working on difficult problems with The true character of people is shown when the challenges are the hardest. While we have had a couple of people move on we have cheered their new opportunities. In no wa

Cons

The business was originally separated in two offices but is now in SF. That transition was tough but we love where we are now and love having space to do meetups with the users of our system. The sophistication of our product is a lot of work given such a small team, but we are working hard to build out the team. Dealing with the legacy opinions of people that most of use have never even met is a problem that continues to hurt us.

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