Pros
- We have a .org that aims to help non profit organization so it feels like your daily work is in part contributing to charity and you are able to feel good about yourself. - Free lunch 3 days a week - Stacked snack bar - Nice office
Cons
- Recent hires + promotion of first time middle managers = bureaucracy galore. For a 15 people engineering team we have 8 middle managers. That is essentially one manager for every 2 person. All it adds up to is more hurdles to getting things done. From what it seems like, none of the middle managers are capable of making decisions so all they are doing is adding an unnecessary layer to day to day decisions that needs to be made to keep things running smoothly and quickly. So now we are a small startup with layers of bureaucracy that mimics a 1000 people organization. - Working with such a small team of engineering, one would think that development could be done faster but all the unnecessary process put in recently, things take longer than they need to, adding overhead and weighs down the team and the product. - Equality? The claim is that we want to be a company that is diverse and inclusive but we look at the engineering team, the last 10 hires were all men, the entire management level are dominated by men. - We are working less and less as a team but more and more divided. Everyone wants to be their own hero and there is no sense of teamwork. - Too much process and policies for everything these days. - Unlimited days off - but it's actually limited in a way because every time you make a request, there will be a negotiation phase of whether or not you can actually take the time off. - No subsidies for gym - the response from the ceo was, "I am sure you can afford $20-$30 a month for gym" but if that's the case then for such a small startup, the company should be able to afford subsidizing $20-$30 a month per employee for their health. Also, Which gym is $30 a month these days?
