I implore anyone who is considering joining to look at the extreme distribution of reviews here on Glassdoor and I think may tell you how this place operates.
I'd like to separate my thoughts into 3 sections: Tech, Culture, and Execution.
The Tech.
The tech is largely built on legacy systems with little to no understanding of SaaS architecture or security. The development experience is confusing as there simply is no debugging experience for some of the backend services. In addition, there are clearly scale issues already occurring on a system with very little customers. The technical decision making is made from a very small group of people and although they provide "lip-service" that their doors are open, it's far from reality. I agree it is hard to get any movement without having the right ear.
The Culture.
This is by far the worst thing about Stacklet. I agree with a few of the other reviews here, there is cultural baggage and nepotism from leadership and other people who all came from the same company in the past. If you're not sure, take a look at Linkedin and see the distribution of employees and people in leadership positions. Take a look at the distribution of opinions about Stacklet. There seems to be 2 realities here, but most likely 2 separate experiences working at this company. There is a lack of ability to debate your views here at Stacklet and there are some engineering leaders with short tempers. There isn't diversity of thought here, not to mention a lack of diversity here as well. There is a lack of transparency at the company as well. The decisions are made by a select few and there is a lack of review of the behavior of leadership. Lastly, I'd like to point out that every negative review left here is met with "lip-service" of moving fast, disagree and execute, take risks, or open door policy. These are just words and I don't believe the leaders actually mean what they say. Just look at how the Head of People is gaslighting everyone who leaves a bad review.
The Execution.
There is a huge open source following for Cloud Custodian that is being squandered with poor leadership and poor execution. With all the technical debt that has already been built, the company moves extremely slowly for a startup and has a difficult time delivering on what customers are asking for. Do you like to understand the business reason for a feature? Good luck on that. Product management is whimsical and honestly just looks like guessing with little direction. There is active rumblings between the founders and leaders as well.
