Pros
Noble mission : Curing cancer is very noble and has personal meaning for lots of people Flexible schedule: Can work form home as needed
Cons
No accountability across any organization: Promises are made and every couple of months, there is a new all hands meeting where we talk about how things are going to change. Nothing changes. Endless excuses for why we don't deliver on promises: You will run into an endless wall of excuses if you ever depend on another team or team member to deliver. Dead weight all over: For a company this small, there is a lot of management and middlemen. Software architects spend their time refactoring code and renaming variables and all the big decisions are left up to junior engineers. Major office politics for a company this size Undervalued engineering: You will always hear "just do this" or "just do that" for major assignments. Many here think that engineering is easy and doing every shortcut we can think of is the best way to create a sustainable system. Major technical debt all over that only a very small handful of people understand. Below average salaries and no stock options after your first signing: No additional equity is ever given and after dilution each round; quality people have no reason to stick around beyond their first year. Constant fire drills: There is always some new event that forces the same set of people to have to pull all nighters or work through the weekend. The work life balance is good, except for probably 15% of the company that is forced to always work on the latest fire drill.
