A great startup with amazing growth and potential - Anonymous employee Handshake Employee Review

5.0
28 June 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Everyone working here truly believes in the company's mission and works together towards a common goal - Transparency about the company from upper management - The company is focused on growth, learning and personal development, values diversity and not only talks about it but makes things to help promote diversity and inclusion. - Decent vacation/sick leave and working from home policy - Still young, yet not naive, has a smart strategy about the company's future and isn't just taking it easy 'riding the VC funding wave' - Very quality-oriented - The managers are very hands-on. - Everybody on the team has a great and intimate understanding of the product - not just support and engineering. - Good benefits, has both maternity and paternity leave of absence.

Cons

- Seasonality: some months will have higher workload than others. - Things are moving really fast, and constantly changing. Work-life balance could suffer (but also depends on a role). - Not your type of startup if you're used to underperforming or doing the minimum amount of work. There's a high expectations of your performance. - No 401(k) yet.

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Pros

It's flexible and sometimes the money is OK. I got paid most of what they owed me.

Cons

Generally disorganized. The task I was on was one of the more highly paid ones but it was almost impossible to actually do in the allotted time. You aren't supposed to use AI but I think people must. The tasks run far over the time they are supposed to take. The human review system also seemed almost arbitrary. Reviewers did not have the subject matter expertise they claimed to. You will make less than the advertised hourly rate because the tasks routinely take longer than they say they will. If they have averages that are lower, those people are either not submitting accurate hours (there is incentive not to) or are using AI to train AI, which is a bigger problem (but not yours).

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