Finnish scale-up with a good product-market fit - Senior Engineering Manager Smartly Employee Review

5.0
26 Mar 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good pay, smart and creative colleagues, rare opportunity to work in a finnish scale-up that has found a good product market fit, scale of operations and technical difficulty is so big that it's very interesting, big partners want to work with us, the choice of several big brands that are known across the whole planet. Helsinki office is really nice and the snacks and breakfasts are great.

Cons

Some technical debt here and there caused by the rapid growth and historically letting all teams have their own ways of working and tools. The office building currently under renovation, hopefully done by summer/autumn.

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Cons

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