Pros
- all-remote company with flexible scheduling - unlimited PTO (although subject to manager approval) - async communication via Slack - very few meetings - everyone below founder/MD level is genuinely quite nice and friendly and willing to pitch in
Cons
- a culture of micro-managing from the founder/MD level - the founders and MD have to approve everything themselves (even if it's not their area of expertise and they're not the most knowledgable person to make that decision), which is a frustrating time-consuming process, and leads to last-minute panic and mandatory overtime to execute their decisions by the original deadline - it's incredibly stressful during launches, and it's expected that you will work overtime and late into the evening and on weekends to get things done by deadline (they then offer you 'time off in lieu' afterwards, but you have to advocate for this yourself, plus they already offer unlimited PTO so this isn't a benefit - I'd rather have regular hours and no overtime crunch rather than time off afterwards) - 'work/life' balance doesn't exist during launches, you're expecting to respond to Slack messages almost instantly regardless of time of day and everything is IMMEDIATE - everyone is hired as a freelancer and not employees, without a formal contract (and just an NDA), which makes me wonder if the company did this to avoid paying employee benefits and to reduce their own company taxes - very poor onboarding process, it's up to your individual manager to arrange everything for you, otherwise you're very much on your own - huge culture of secrecy when people leave, you aren't told that people h ave left until you notice their Slack has been de-activated - and there's a fair amount of turnover - resistance to hiring more people when workloads become overwhelming
