great place to work if you're a bro, not great otherwise - Senior Software Engineer DataGrail Employee Review

2.0
30 June 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You get to work on meaningful projects that improve consumer privacy. The people are nice and very open and honest. Everyone can see and understand all areas of the business.

Cons

* Founders emphasizes the importance of getting enough sleep and staying mentally healthy yet engineers on my team worked on weekends to keep up with workload. * Onboarding is not structured and I had to constantly bother people to get access to tools I needed to do work (aws permissions, access to test data). * Someone else on my team (who joined after me) did not have all the same onboarding struggles I did, probably because he had worked with some teammates previously and they took him seriously while they blew me off. * Most technical problems are self-inflicted by the founders & their mountain of tech debt (ex: no CircleCI/BuildKite/Jenkins, lots of ignored or unwritten tests, admin dashboard full of bugs no one could figure out, crazypants data model) * Pay is not competitive, especially because everyone's salaries were cut at the beginning of the pandemic.

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DataGrail Response
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Thank you for your feedback; we're sorry to hear this was your experience. We take living our values consistently throughout the entire business seriously. Even when it's hard to read, we appreciate hearing how we can grow. Thank you again for writing this!

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5.0
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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

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Thrash, whiplash, pivot, repeat. GTM side of the business is at the mercy of mercurial executive decision-making. Constantly setting unrealistic goals and making big swing experiments to try and hit them. Hired and laid off 2 or 3 entire BDR programs. CEO is high energy, personable, likeable, and hard worker. But unfortunately thinks of himself as smarter and a better seller than any other representative of company (bc it's his baby). Dismissive of any challenge to his big idea/conviction of the week. There were 3 layoffs of 10+ and several random individual layoffs in my ~1.5 yr there. CEO would casually say things like "well he won't be here next month, lets be honest" or "as soon as we find a replacement she'll be gone".

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