Pros
Great coworkers with talent and drive to create a great product and user experience. Good pay.
Cons
Okay, I want to be 100% clear. I was not laid off or asked to leave. I left on my own after receiving another opportunity. However, during my time there, the company went through a number of layoffs that they disguised by firing people for “poor performance”. They did this to dozens of employees in the past two years. It’s gross. People will often receive little to no prior warning before being let go. They believe they’re doing well and then they’re gone. This is particularly widespread in the product and engineering org where the management team is atrocious. Some might say they have unrealistic expectations but it’s not even that. They genuinely do not know what they’re doing. This is not an exaggeration. I’ve worked at enough other places and seen how Eng teams work. This place is bonkers and toxic. Here is just one example. Eng is not allowed to collaborate. The whole product is built on a bespoke coding language developed by the CTO, which makes coding anything new and managing legacy code a nightmare. This makes not collaborating all the more insane. This is indicative of the larger org dysfunction. At the end of the day, Don’t be fooled by the marketing. This place is absolutely not worth it.