Backblaze reviews

No real deadlines (yes, it's a pro and con), weak leadership, and some teams spend $ like water while others are forced to expend inordinate amounts of energy to save pennies. At times the company is run like a retirement home geared towards employing obsolete empire-builders who have lost their edge years ago instead of focusing on running an effective business. This results in insane politics where industry-agreed-upon practices are tossed aside and some groups "own" technologies or processes they have no business running. Ignorant mob mentality in business social collab. platforms. Compliance is always a struggle because people only care about security or privacy if it's their own privacy. People who would have been fired from other functional companies continue to exist and waste multiple teams' time and energy. Equity compensation for most is less than worthless

This is a mom & pop shop wanting to be more but stuck in the distant past. Seniority is based on the time spent at the company rather than anything else. They say their systems and processes are a little old and could use a lot of work, but don't dare agree with that statement. Try modernizing or improving anything and a "founder" will personally interfere with every little bit of work you try to complete. If you want to work at a tech company with a 1990 to 2005 feel, this is the place for you.