Pros
-Best people I have ever worked with. Seriously, we hire top talent -You get to work with lasers. Amazing. -We have the best customers -Glowforge will succeed as a company. It's an amazing idea and Dan is very smart at marketing it -Culture and values are pretty cool
Cons
Although we hire top talent, a lot of decisions are micromanaged. The entire org is very smart, including Dan and the senior executives, but they also tend to want to be involved in everything. This makes getting features out extremely slow and frustrating, and causes us engineers to redo a lot of work as well as ship incomplete features. After we ship, we never iterate. Been here two years, and after shipping units, I expected us to have a roadmap and direction. Instead it feels like we're just grabbing the next hottest and loudest thing. When we had a "Product overview" meeting, the first 30 minutes was filled with marketing and strategy, and we ran out of time to answer questions. We were promised a follow up, and it never happened.