Pros
* people are friendly and generally nice. People do tend to care for one another * lot of exposure to senior leadership. They do make time and hear you out. * new office is nice and Hayes Valley is great * work/life balance is solid
Cons
* Company is complacent. It takes forever to get ideas moving and to ship new features. The features we ship tend to be very similar to those that other dating apps have had for years. People seem to be happy here and have kind of settled in. Management keeps talking about differentiation, but we keep shipping stuff that makes us more like everyone else. * Lots of turnover. It seems like 2019 was a rough year for turnover. We lost a lot of really good people and it was often unexpected. At times, people seemed to disappear with no notice or warning. Some employees were let go with little consideration for how their exit would affect other teams and people, so we were left scrambling to cover. Really poor planning and management here. * People management is really spotty. The company tries to be good about people management, but there are not a ton of experienced people managers and the company is too small for people to put real time into it. * Pay is pretty low relative to other places. Perks are pretty spartan, * company lacks vision. It seems like leadership changes how they organize the company based on the latest management books someone read. It can feel like the leadership listens to their friends in other companies more than the people inside CMB.