Pros
- Talented engineers and technically interesting problems.
- Friendly, social atmosphere on the surface; coworkers are generally kind and welcoming.
Cons
- Severe lack of professional management fundamentals.
- Expectations are implicit, shifting, and enforced retroactively.
- Employees are talked about privately rather than addressed directly, with vague or withheld feedback later backfilled to justify decisions.
- “Family-like” culture masks a lack of formal management processes and accountability.
- Success depends heavily on perception, alliances, and proximity to senior leadership rather than clear performance criteria.
- Heavily discouraged from taking “unlimited” PTO by managers, with poor work-life balance due to frequent travel to remote locations for field testing that can last weeks at a time, expectations that are not disclosed prior to joining the company. You are pressured to travel on short notice, to work in extremely harsh and physically demanding conditions with very long days, and declining due to health issues or personal commitments is perceived as a lack of commitment. You are also pressured to frequently climb onto rooftops without any safety gear in order to maintain the equipment. Even when not traveling, long hours and often weekends are expected and you are pressured to respond to Slack messages and emails outside of work hours.
- Morale is low - the office is completely silent for most of the day and you are discouraged from taking more than 30 minutes maximum for lunch and taking any breaks besides that. Extremely heavy drinking culture to cope with the high pressure environment.
- For further reading, look at the reviews for “Epirus” on Glassdoor - same founding team, investors, culture, and a large chunk of employees. Despite senior management and loyal former Epirus employees constantly touting how much better than Epirus this company is, it is just as bad, if not worse.