Pros
1) Awesome startup culture with 0.0% corporate culture included. Your team's successes are publicly celebrated and failures are retro-ed and learnings are taken forward and implemented with no blame culture at all. Due to the carefully thought through hiring practices, the team is built exclusively of clever, diverse, highly motivated people who all have a personal belief in the company's mission. 2) Complete autonomy at work to solve problems and optimise user experience in ways that you see fit. Anyone in the company can devise a hypothesis, persuade any other colleagues to work with them and then test it out. 3) Inspirational colleagues who are fun to work, explore and socialise with. Among other things, yearly company paid holidays abroad joins the team in a way that solidifies bonds and ensures your colleagues are your friends as well. 4) busuu is a company that heavily invests in your growth; training budgets, conference leave, personal growth OKRs and mentoring from your manager are all ways that busuu ensures that you are 10x the person upon leaving than when you arrived. 5) All the startup mod cons you would expect: beanbags, health insurance, share options, gym membership, enough free food & drinks in the office for the entire team so survive a zombie apocalypse.
Cons
This is not a place for "do what you are told and go home" 9-5ers. In the spirit of give and take, busuu gives a lot to its employees and rightfully expects the same back. However, with passion, commitment, hard work and an appetite for pushing yourself and your skills, busuu will take you forward on your professional journey as long as you are working there.
